​Bloomsbury Media Lab

About Us

​The Bloomsbury Media Lab is a shared media service primarily set up for the members of the Bloomsbury Learning Exchange (Birkbeck, LSHTM, the Royal Veterinary College, SOAS, UCL and the University of London). The service exists to help coordinate, develop and support media and TEL related activities across the Colleges. This service provides reliable, quality and cost-efficient access to technology and expertise within Bloomsbury and beyond. The Lab works with a range of internal and external specialists in digital photography, video production, lecture capture and web-conferencing, as well e-learning and pedagogic experts.

How it works​
​Acting as a brokering service, the Lab negotiates preferential pricing with professional media consultants in photography, filming and training on behalf of the Colleges. Clients pay the suppliers directly but bookings are taken through the service, via the request form. If a contract is required by the client, this is also arranged directly with the supplier.

Basic pricing guide
​We intend to work as transparently as possible. As a guide, these are the rates we are currently working with:

General
  • Half day (4 hours): £250+VAT
  • Full day (8 hours): £350+VAT
  • Minimum booking: 90 minutes, at an hourly rate of £60+VAT per hour for less than 4 hours. 
Set-up
  • Filming set-up costs: £15+VAT
  • Filming set-up costs after 9pm: £30+VAT
  • Livestreaming: £25+VAT
Post-production
  • Simple post-production ("top and tail" editing) is included in the price above.
  • Basic post-production (e.g. editing out breaks, gaps between presentations): £60+VAT (for a 3-hour recording)
  • Additional post-production: £35+VAT per hour
Consultancy
  • Consultancy rates start at £20 per hour
If you would like to make a request for AV support for an event, meeting or lecture, or for a film project, please send us a message via the Contact Form.