I suddenly have a lot of new followers on my Twitter feed so I thought I'd do a small "intro" blog for those of you unfamiliar with me, what I do, and why I do it.
My name is Fraser, I'm 27 (closing in on 28, well, next March, but still, scary) and I live in the West End of Glasgow with my partner, Bethany. My imagination has always got the better of me, to the point where in primary school my teacher told my parents that I had an over-active imagination. Rather than take this in a positive way which I have done so for the past 10 years of my life, my parents saw this as a problem and tried to discourage me to use my imagination. It didn't work.
After a stint of being unemployed for a very long time, the job centre put me on a training programme at the BBC in Glasgow (this would probably never happen now) and so I got my first real taste for television on the E-Force programme at the old BBC building in the West End - Queen Margaret Drive to be precise. From there I went onto college and studied HND Television Operations and Productions at James Watt in Greenock. In 2006 I left college and started my own production company, "Silly Wee Films"
From 2006 until now I have focussed on making corporate videos, promotional videos, music videos, recording live events and generally filming whatever I can to make money to keep living in my lovely 2 bedroom house, keep the fridge full with food and feed by guinea pigs (Tegan and Maisy), my rabbit Barney and my hamster Donna.
I've also made 2 seasons of a low-budget superhero web series called "Night is Day" 5 short films which, you can watch at this page, and my first EVER feature film, based on the web series, "Night is Day" is now in post-production and we'll be taking it to the American Film Market in LA this November to seek a distribution deal.
After that? Who knows. Making a film, especially in Scotland, is a lot of hard work. The generally accepted genre is "depressing". If it's not got some sort of drug use in it, depression, neds, violence or domestic abuse or senseless violence, the people who hold the money don't seem to be interested. That's fine for those who feel the need to force 90 minutes (if you're lucky) of grainy, depressing story on to your eyes and ears, but for me I'm more of the Hollywood persuasion. I like comedies, action films, superhero films, sci-fi films, romance (well, mostly romantic comedy) and indie films - ala Moon, Source Code.
I'm trying to make "Get Funded" which is a comedy about 3 filmmakers who go to EXTREME lengths to fund their first feature, but I suspect I need "Night is Day" to be sold and make some sort of impression in the world before someone will part with their cash to help me pay a cast and crew to spend their summer filming a comedy in Scotland.
Apart from that I'm a happy-go-lucky person. I make no secret that I'm a geek, I love Doctor Who, Torchwood, Chuck, Castle, Burn Notice, Star Wars, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, How I Met Your Mother, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, The Blues Brothers, Blade Runner, Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, just to name a few.
So, there ya go, there's my intro post.
