Light Trails

‘Tis the season to be jolly and what better way to get into the holiday spirit than by joining us for our next instalment of Light Bytes. This month we are chatting with lighting designer Tony Simpson, Associate Designer, Head of Lighting Dom Cook, and Production Electrician Tom Tomkins who are the team behind some of the most popular Christmas Light Trails in the UK. We’ll be chatting about what’s involved in putting a light trail together – from plans and paperwork to IP ratings and putlogs, to crawling around in the bushes with cables and fairy lights, it takes months of planning and an awesome team to pull it off. You can join us online or in-person at the London office. We have limited space for our live audience at the ETC offices in London – if you would like to be a part of our “studio audience” please send an email to [email protected] and we’ll reserve your place. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Tony Simpson Tony has worked as a lighting designer and practitioner across a wide spectrum of disciplines for over twenty nine years. He has worked extensively as a theatrical lighting designer, as well as designing and running a diverse array of commercial projects and also working within the feature film industry. In feature film, Tony was the concert lighting designer for the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody and he was the theatrical lighting director for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Disney’s’ Beauty and the Beast. Commercially Tony has designed and managed numerous corporate productions including for Rolls Royce, All Saints, Cartier, Little Mix, De Beers, The Borne Foundation as well as numerous fashion shows including the 2015 L’Oreal Colour Trophy Awards, Ralph Lauren, Cottweiler and Gucci at Westminster Abbey. Tony regularly lights orchestral concerts at London's Southbank Centre for The London Sinfonietta, he also worked on Array for the City of London and Palace in Motion at the Qaṣr Al-Waṭan - Abu Dhabi (both for 59 Productions); he was a consultant for English National Opera for an external Lighting Design for the London Coliseum and he has also lit Christmas trails for Culture Creative Ltd at Stourhead, Bedgebury and Beaulieu. In 2019 he also lit for Independent Opera the Coronet Cantata A Sheen of Dew on Flowers by Joby Talbot at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London to celebrate the opening Queen Victoria's celebrated coronet display. Tom Tomkins After graduating from the BRIT School, Tom worked his way up the ranks at White Light to become a project manager in the production department. Tom started working on Christmas trails in 2017 as the production electrician at Christmas at Beaulieu, and he has worked as the production electrician at Christmas at Bedgebury for the three years since. During his free time Tom is a passionate Scuba-diver. Dom Cook Dom is a graduate from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Since graduating he has completed numerous scale projects working as a Production Electrician. Dom works in a large variety of sectors, including; Theatre, Corporate, Live and Special Events. Enjoying the challenges and rewards of every individual process. Join us for Light Bytes' next event on Feb 4 For more information visit us at https://www.etcconnect.com or... join a conversation at https://community.etcconnect.com To contact us for sales or support visit: https://www.etcconnect.com/contactetc/ Visualization software, when utilized, is provided by Capture lighting design software: http://capture.se/ Patents and Trademarks: https://www.etcconnect.com/IP