Adrian Turpin has a wealth of experience as a Lighting Designer and TV Lighting Director. He is also an occasional Director of Photography for which he is able to utilise his lighting experience along with his experience as a commercial photographer and lighting cameraman.
We own a WholeHog 4 lighting desk and a WholeHog 4 Nano both available to hire. The Nano is great as a backup system and also useful for programming from a second position such as the studio floor or theatre stalls.
We use Capture software which is a real time, 3D fully rendered WYSIWYG visualisation system for pre-programming and visualising how set and lighting design will look prior to set building and prior to using valuable studio time.
Adrian is available as a Lighting Director, Lighting Designer, BBC Lighting Vision Supervisor or Lighting Console Operator and as a Moving Light Programmer. He has worked extensively in Glasgow and Manchester particularly at the BBC studios at Pacific Quay and Dock 10. He also works as a Vision Supervisor or Vision Operator looking after the real time critical colour matching operation of a multi camera TV production.
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 2 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 It is still in use today although it was superseded by the Hog 3 and now the Hog 4 which is specified as the desk of choice for many people. Adrian contributed to the beta testing of the WholeHog 3 in the autumn and winter of 2002.
Lighting Design has always been a passion as well as a job and has occupied much of Adrian’s career.
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