About

I’m Tony Scott, a London-based web designer/developer and television vision controller.

My current work includes the design and development of BECTU’s website and co-ordinating WordCamp UK.

Opinions expressed in my web & broadcasting blog are my personal views and not those of my employers.

My interests include open source, open standards, music, science fiction and real ale.

A bit of history

I was brought up in Stalybridge, Manchester and educated at Hyde Grammar School before taking a one year Art Foundation Course at Tameside College.

I then attended Manchester Metropolitan University studying Design for Communications, which included film and television theory and practice. The course was housed in the Capitol Cinema Didbury.

Following graduation I joined the BBC in 1981, based in Manchester working in studio and outside broadcast cameras.

In 1986 I transferred to Lime Grove Studios London, then the BBC Current Affairs Centre, which included working on the early days of breakfast television.

Two years later I moved to BBC Television Centre, and from cameras to the lighting section as a vision controller. I worked on all the shows produced for network television, everything from Top of the Pops to the Sky at Night.

In early 2007 I become a freelance web developer and television vision controller.