spotwernu
About spotwernu

Trained on real stages, not slideshows

spotwernu started as an internal training programme for a touring lighting crew and grew into a full production course used by event media teams across the United Kingdom.

Event production crew working together backstage with lighting and camera equipment

Our story

After years of last-minute lighting fixes and missed camera cues on event floors, our founders wrote down every checklist that actually worked and turned it into a structured course.

Today spotwernu trains solo operators, small studios and full touring crews, focusing on the four pillars that make or break a live production: lighting placement, stage framing, camera setup and audio checks.

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What we stand for

Practical First

Every lesson is built from footage of real events, so what you learn applies directly to your next show.

Built by Crew

Our instructors have rigged, shot and mixed live events across the UK for over a decade combined.

Repeatable Workflows

We focus on checklists and routines you can reuse on every job, not one-off tricks that only work once.

Meet the instructors

Three specialists lead every cohort, each covering their own discipline in depth.

Portrait of a male lighting design instructor holding a light meter

David Whitfield

Lighting Design Lead

Portrait of a female camera operator instructor with a mirrorless camera

Amara Solanke

Camera Operations Lead

Portrait of a male audio engineer instructor wearing studio headphones

Rohan Patel

Audio Engineering Lead

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