LD oversight
- Overall responsibilty for over-sight of the visual output for all Sky News studios for over 10 years.
- Primary point of contact for the Sky News Leadership Team and Studio Directors for all lighting questions; = - On-call 24/7/365
- Ensured smooth operations wuith no significant on-air lighting issues throughout.
- Successfully managed the transition from the original tight team of dedicated Lighting operators, working in a traditional large single flagship studio with tungsten lighting…
… To a number of simultenously-operational, LED-lit studios, across multiple sites, all remotly-operated by a fluid pool of general-purpose Technical Supervisors with limitied training and variable lighting skilla and knowledge as well as a myriad of competing calls on their time & attention.
Lighting Director for
HM The Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Speach 2018
Buckingham Palace
Kings Collage Chapel, Cambridge.
Prime Ministers live election debates
Cameron vs Milliband (2015)
May vs Corbyn (2017)
Boris vs Corbyn (2019 - cancelled due to Boris no-show)
>Nominaed for the Knight of Illuminations Award nomination in 2017!
Brexit debate (Cameron vs Gove)
- Great lighting in a near-impossible venue
- Unforuntaly also the moment that Gove made the infamous “had enough of experts” quote)
Various Party Leadership debates for both Labour and Conservative
LD for Flagship all-day Outside Broadcasts
Rotherham
Shoreditch
Series LD for The Pledge
- Provokative weekly Debate show
- 5 opinonated pundits each presented their idea, and the others would argue against.
- No moderator or presenter
- filmed in the round with a glass set
- ran weekly from 20167-2020 after no less than 9 months of weekly pilots…!