At The Finish Line, we’ve set up our business to be both family-friendly and high-performing, two concepts that can be seen as at odds with each other. Here are some key lessons we’ve learned along the way:

The Finish Line has been crowned “Gold Winner” in the Broadcast magazine best places to work in TV for the second year in a row!! If it was just the one time, we might have thought it was an accident, but now we know we are doing something right, and we would love to help more companies make the list! TV & Film is a notoriously unhealthy industry that is rife with exploitative business practices, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Below, we’ll do our best to cover simple things that you can do to make life better for your employees and help them to be able to do work they love while also enjoying life outside of work.

Welcome to the latest instalment of our meet the team series, where we get to know the amazing people behind The Finish Line. This time, we’ll be chatting to our Finishing Assistant, Gemma Comber. Gemma has always had a passion for film and TV. Inspired by Tarantino and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, she jumped at the chance to do a media studies course for her A-levels. It was there that she realised she was happy to let everyone else fight over directing and camera roles – while she took her seat in the editor’s chair. It was the beginning of a passion for post production that continues to this day.

Our work on BBC Two's The Speedshop has been featured in several magazines! Read more about what they said here.

Our talented Finishing Artist, Katie Kemp, graded never-before-seen footage to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 for Brook Lapping’s new 90-minute documentary, 9/11: Life Under Attack.

Client: October Films Talent: A team effort with help from Ben Lee, Dave Stephenson, Steve Alexander & Katie Kemp Brief: A fast turnaround grade and online of a 4 x 60 minute series for Channel 5. Michael Buerk travels the length and breadth of Britain to find out How the Victorians Built Britain. Along the way he uncovers the incredible and surprising stories behind iconic landmarks, discovers the hidden heroes behind epic constructions and finds out how the incredible advances made by the Victorians forged the world we live in today.

Client: World Media Rights Talent: Grade and Online by Luke Dabbs & Jean-Paul Vial Brief: Complete the grade and online of a 6 x 60 minute series which uncovers the true stories upon which some of the most famous, Oscar®-nominated movies of recent years were based, including Goodfellas, Zero Dark Thirty and The Social Network.

Final Post: The Finish Line & Vaudeville Client: Optomen Television Talent: Grade and Online by Jean-Paul Vial Brief: The series follows people with serious ailments undergoing treatment to improve their quality of life. The brief was to come up with style that could be instantly recognisable with the series, and to maintain a warm atmosphere whilst dealing with often distressing scenes.

I often hear young people who are trying to get into our industry or any industry for that matter refer to the chicken and egg situation that is how to get experience when every job is asking for people with experience. How do you get experience if no one will give you a job to get it?

Final Post: The Finish Line & Vaudeville Client: Optomen Television Talent: Grade and Online by David Grewal Brief: Grade and Online the four episode series based on two previous series.