Lighting Designer Glasgow & Manchester

ATLD Ltd. Adrian Turpin Lighting Design is based in the North West of England covering Glasgow and Manchester. We provide services to the TV, film and theatre business as a lighting designer, a director of photography, a video designer and as a broadcast vision engineer. Adrian has extensive experience in all these areas taken from many years working in theatre and in Television both for the BBC and for many independent companies.

Television requires its own special and peculiar knowledge and understanding, not just of lighting but of the whole production process from collaberating with the production department through to the technical side of things including in depth knowledge of how the cameras function and are set up and operated and how the pictures will be used and edited into the final programme. The resultant pictures made in either a TV studio or on a location shoot or outside broadcast depend as much on the cameras as on the lighting. Adrian has worked on studio productions in Glasgow and outside broadcasts and location events all over Scotland, the UK and worldwide across the globe too. A lighting director or director of photography can pull all of these elements together to ultimately deliver a high quality end product. These two roles are subtley different although both ultimately design and control the lighting of the production. A DoP generally has more say and control over the actual photography as well as the lighting and is a role more commonly associated with film production.

Live concert lighting and lighting for live events sometimes require a different skill set and approach and can also be tied in with a production for television that requires understanding of both the live environment and audience as well as the television audience and cameras. A lot of the lighting design for live events as well as for tv now tends to have a large element of video design and content and the two, if well orchestrated and planned, merge together as one visual element.

Lighting for functions Glasgow and Manchester based events is another area where ATLD has many times provided a solution that might not always be possible without our extensive experience and range of contacts within the entertainment business. Whether it is a corporate event, a live music event or a large scale private function, we can tie in both lighting and video and set design and even provide additional props and set dressing or special effects that will give your corporate event or private function a unique and highly satisfying end result.

Media servers allow the integration of video material in with the lighting design. This can be anything from abstract moving images to specific imagery that becomes an extension of the performance or event. The Catalyst and the Hippotiser are two of the most common systems in use althought there are now many other alternatives.

Adrian was originally a Strand Galaxy 3 operator at the BBC studios in Glasgow prior to the arrival of intelligent or 'moving lights' on the scene in 1993. Having used the Strand Gemini and then the MA ScanCommander to control the new generation of lighting fixtures, he became a specialised Whole Hog 2 operator, programmer and designer in 1998. The Hog II quickly became an industry standard for moving lights and later for LED fixtures and Catalyst or media server control and programming. It is still in wide use today and is still specified as the desk of choice for many people. Adrian contributed to the beta testing of the successor to the Hog 2, the Whole Hog 3 in the autumn and winter of 2002. The Hog III has now been around for quite some time and is finally settling down to be a worthy product in its own right, particularly with the addition of the Road Hog and the Full Boar consoles.