WORLD CUP 26 - POST PRODUCTION HUB Week 1
The Brief
For the duration of Scotland's time at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Monumont Studios is operating a dedicated post-production hub embedded in the Scotland National Team's media operation. Scotland are back at the World Cup after a 28-year absence, and with that return comes an audience hungry for access — the Tartan Army want to know what is happening inside the camp every single day. The brief was to build a production infrastructure capable of serving that appetite across multiple content formats simultaneously, turning around material from the camp each morning and delivering it live the same day.
Three distinct content series sit at the heart of the output: the EE Daily Roundup, the Over The Wall long-form YouTube series, and the Embedded documentary strand. Each serves a different purpose and a different audience behaviour. Together they form a comprehensive behind-the-scenes portrait of Steve Clarke's squad preparing for Group C, where they face Haiti, Morocco, and Brazil.
The Setup
Scotland are based in Charlotte, North Carolina, using Charlotte FC's Atrium Health Performance Park as their team base camp training site, following an opening pre-tournament camp in Fort Lauderdale. Footage from inside that environment arrives at the Monumont hub every morning. From that point, the clock is running. Everything is cut, graded, and delivered before the day is out — a same-day turnaround operation that requires the edit suite to be functioning as a live production environment rather than a traditional post-production workflow.
The scale of what Scotland's return to the World Cup means nationally gives every piece of content a weight that goes beyond the standard international tournament cycle. Scotland secured their place at the tournament with a dramatic 4-2 win over Denmark, sealed by stoppage-time goals that sent Hampden Park into scenes of disbelief. After 28 years, the appetite from supporters and media alike is enormous — and the content operation has to match it.
The EE Daily Roundup
The anchor of the daily output is the EE Daily Roundup, a behind-the-scenes review of life inside the Scotland camp presented by Gordon Duncan. Brought in specifically for the tournament as part of the squad's wider media setup, Duncan fronts a piece each day that takes the viewer through the training sessions, the off-pitch moments, and the atmosphere building within the group as the opening fixture approaches.
The format is deliberately accessible — it brings the Tartan Army inside the training ground in a way that press conferences and highlight clips cannot. Footage arrives from camp in the morning and the Roundup is assembled and delivered the same day, keeping the content current and the conversation alive across the Scotland support ahead of each match day.
Over The Wall
The second strand is Over The Wall — a long-form YouTube series published on the Scottish FA's channel that gives a wider view of what life on the road with the national team actually looks like. The series has already documented the squad's opening days in Fort Lauderdale, capturing the pre-camp training sessions, the downtime, and the early rhythms of a squad settling into tournament life together. A further episode documented the behind the scenes of Scotland's FIFA content day, showing the production machinery that surrounds a major international squad at a tournament of this scale.
Over The Wall sits at the longer end of the content spectrum by design. Where the Daily Roundup gives supporters their daily fix, Over The Wall gives them the texture — the things that don't fit into a short-form edit, the moments that only make sense with time and context around them. It is the series for the viewer who wants to feel like they are genuinely travelling with the team.
Embedded
The Embedded series takes the behind-the-scenes approach one step further, building a documentary-style account of specific moments in the tournament journey. Week one's centrepiece was the coverage of Scotland's final pre-tournament friendly against Bolivia — a match played at the Sports Illustrated Stadium in New Jersey that served as the last competitive run-out before the Group C opener against Haiti. Scotland ran out 4-0 winners, with the performance providing exactly the kind of positive momentum the Embedded cameras were on hand to document — from the build-up in the dressing room through to the final whistle.
Where Over The Wall captures the everyday, Embedded captures the significant. It is the strand that will matter most when supporters look back on Scotland's World Cup campaign — the record of what it felt like to be inside it.
Why Monumont
Running a post-production hub of this shape requires more than editing capability. It requires a team that can absorb footage, identify the story within it, and build three distinct content formats simultaneously — each with a different editorial register, a different platform, and a different audience expectation — all within the same working day.
The other key - knowledge of sport. with our FOUNDER and former PROFESSIONAL footballer chris duggan at the helm, he knows exactly how to cut the edit. without looking at the footage, he can identify drills, what comes next and where clips should sit to give the viewer a minute-by-minute account of each day.
The content going out under the Scotland National Team banner during this tournament will be some of the most watched Scottish football content in a generation. Scotland's return to the World Cup after 28 years is a national moment, and the production infrastructure sitting behind it needs to be equal to the occasion. The hub Monumont is running ensures it is.