Martin Kempton - television lighting director

welcome

Welcome to my website.  I am a television lighting director with a decade's previous experience as a BBC staffer but I've now been freelance for six years.

This website is aimed at producers, directors and production managers seeking a suitable LD for their next show.  If you fall into this category then you are more than welcome!  If not, you will find it very dull.

Click on the buttons on the left for more information.  The 'CV' page gives a summary of my television career and a selection of about fifty programmes I have lit in the past few years.  Have a look at the 'stills of TV work' page to see what some of those shows looked like.  For a list of everything I have worked on recently - go to 'all TV work.'

 

Sorry if it's all a bit 'me! me! me!'  I'm not usually like this, (at least, I hope not), but it's hard to know quite how to present myself in the best possible light without sounding like a complete pain in the ... you get the picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Information for students...

I am occasionally contacted by people seeking info about what the job of a lighting director involves or how they might best go about entering the industry.

Unfortunately, there are no longer clear-cut routes to becoming an LD but I have written some pages that might help a little.  Click on the relevant buttons on the left to find out more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, for those who are looking for my history of London's television studios - it can be found at...

www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk

 

 

Freelance work has included:

Al Murray's Happy Hour

An Audience/Another Audience With Al Murray

An Audience With Harry Hill

The Catherine Tate Christmas Show

Coupling

Eggheads

French and Saunders

The Green Green Grass

Grownups

Harry Hill's TV Burp

I'm Alan Partridge

In It To Win It

Little Britain

Not Going Out

To The Manor Born Christmas Special

The Omid Djalili Show

TV Heaven, Telly Hell

Who Dares Wins

The Vicar of Dibley

Please click on 'CV' button on the left for more information or 'all tv work' button for full list of programmes.