Hi Guys,

I thought I'd just check if there were any other Scottish members on the board here, and more so if there were any Scottish film makers on the board.

I'm based in Armadale, West Lothian which is between Glasgow and Edinburgh. I run a small video production company, but I've pretty much gathered a rake of equipment over the years.

Most of my work is with weddings, but lately I've decided that I want to make movies and tv shows, even though I'm going to have a HUGE learning curve ahead of me. Life is too short to have any regrets, and if i don't do this with my life, I will end up with one major regret. :-)

My latest prized possession is my Glidecam V25, which I just love. Still getting a bit used to it at the moment, as it's a step up from the DV Sportster, but a lot of fun. My shins took a beating the first day I had it on, but they've toughened up and I'm walking a lot better with it.

Look forward to hearing from everyone.

Cheers,

James.

Hi Guys,

I thought I'd just check if there were any other Scottish members on the board here, and more so if there were any Scottish film makers on the board...

Look forward to hearing from everyone.

OK, I was stuck for something to do during a wet July holiday this year, so now I have almost 300 names of dvinfo Brits on a database (and there will be others I haven't found yet). Here's the Jocks (I hate that expression!) so far:

Paul Black Scotland
Mark Boggis Glasgow Scotland
Alastair Brown Glasgow Scotland
Scott Brown Aberdeen Scotland
Rikki Bruce Glasgow Scotland
Stuart Burns Dundee Scotland
Alex Calderhead Cumbernauld Scotland
Mark Campbell Dundee,Scotland
David Carter Glasgow Scotland
Scott Cassie Peterhead Scotland
James Collinson Glasgow Scotland
Nicole Dolder Edinburgh Scotland
George Duncan Burghead Scotland
Christopher Dunne Edinburgh Scotland
John Estcourt Ayrshire Scotland
Steve Garvie Fife Scotland
Jeff Goddard Perth Scotland
David Graham Glasgow Scotland
Andy Graham Lanark Scotland
Henry Gray Selkirk Scotland
Duncan Grieve Glasgow Scotland
Derek Grogan Larbert Scotland
Roddy Horsfall Glasgow Scotland
Kathleen Little Glasgow Scotland
James Lundy West Lothian Scotland
Peter Mackay Scotland
Scott MacKenzie Glasgow Scotland
Gary Masson Aberdeen Scotland
Colin McCaffery Aberdeenshire Scotland
Colin McDonald Glasgow Scotland
Allen McLaughlin Paisley Scotland
John McPaul Inverclyde Scotland
Stewart Menelaws Scotland
John Millar Scotland
David Miller Edinburgh Scotland
Ross Milligan Scotland
Tom Park Glasgow Scotland
Mat Pringle Stirling, Scotland
Eric A Robinson Edinburgh Scotland
Martin D. Smith Dundee Scotland
John Steele Glasgow Scotland
Jennie Stenhouse Glasgow Scotland
James Strange Glasgow
Martin Trotter Scotland
Lenny Warren Glasgow Scotland
Sandy Watt Glasgow Scotland
Ian Wright Edinburgh Scotland
Keith Yuill Scotland

Bet you wish you hadn't asked now :-)

PS - You're on it!

Great stuff Colin - I haven't really been on here much in the past, but plan to contribute a lot more.

Also, John Steele has thrown in the towel for the moment and sold up all his gear. He got a couple of promotions at his work, and simply doesn't have enough time to pursue video in a serious matter. I'd wager a bet he'll be back sometime in the future, but as it sits at the moment he's took early retirement.

Hi folks, I didn't realise there were so many people from scotland. what do you all do? I run my own small company (video and photography), specializing in public sector/educational films and I make me own wee shorts too. got a sony ex1 and saving up to buy letus ultimate!

Hi Kathleen, welcome to the board, its always nice to see more Scots around here.I personally do freelance for other companies. My main area is camera/steadicam and editing but have done most jobs at some point so if ya ever find yourself needing a freelancer let me know, i can be contacted through this board.

Hi James im not sure if you still look at this board but if your interested in making low budget features we should meet up some time, i have a film company called camera Shy Productions ltd and making low budget features is exactly what we do. We shot a promo scene for our next film which is in the pipeline so if you like what you see and want to work with us on it youd be most welcome.

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/show-your-work/108226-shadow-land-feature-promo.html

The download link is on the last page about three posts from the bottom.

Cheers
Andy.

Hi, Kathleen. I've added you to the dvinfo Brits list.

I think I might have seen some of your work - did you do "Vision of Hope?"

Hoots, Mon!
Was I excluded from your list because I left St.Andrews to settle in Japan?

I am following on the footsteps of this famous Scot:

Thomas Blake Glover The Broch Scottish Samurai (http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/thomasblakeglover.php)

Nagasaki is just across the bay from me.

Hopefully I can be included in your ever growing list.

Regards,
Douglas

Douglas, I would need to put you down as "Kumamoto City, Scotland" or Excel won't include you in the Scottish list. I didn't anticipate having to cater for ex-pats but there are various ways of doing it - like you could always move back to St. Andrews to make it easy for me :-)
Anyway, consider yourself added.

Hi andy, thanks for the welcome. tried to look at your thread but without luck. is there some particular software I should have?

Hi Colin, yes, I did VOH last year. how do you know about it? was it off vimeo? what do you do? cheers k

Yeah All the links in the first page of the thread are dead, the only working links are on page 4 near the bottom. Theres no specific software needed, you should be able to just click the link and it takes you to a download page, the file its self is a 177mb quicktime file.

If you couldn't see the thread at all you can go to the "show your work" section of this board and go to page six, shadow land is about half way down the page.

failing all that you can try this http://www.box.net/shared/xys5g1masg

Cheers
Andy.

Hi Colin, yes, I did VOH last year. how do you know about it? was it off vimeo? what do you do? cheers k

Vimeo yes, and I have a connection with Project Ability and some similar organisations.
As to what I do, I posted this when I joined dvinfo a year ago:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/these-people-your-neighborhood/111373-another-glasgwegian.html#post800969

just discovered this Scotland thread.

I'm over in Edinburgh/Haddington and video shows from various fringe/festivals like Edinburgh, Brighton, Callander etc. The videos end up on my website, Festival Video and Audio Previews - Festival Previews Ltd (http://www.festivalpreviews.com).

I'm just learning videoing techniques on the job, as I go along. Hopefully 2009 will see better quality! I use an XH A1.

Cheers

Ian
Festival Video and Audio Previews - Festival Previews Ltd (http://www.festivalpreviews.com)

Hi Ian, welcome. good to see another local also using the Canon xh-a1.
cheers john

Didnt realise so many Scottish folks were on here :D

Douglas, I would need to put you down as "Kumamoto City, Scotland" or Excel won't include you in the Scottish list. I didn't anticipate having to cater for ex-pats but there are various ways of doing it - like you could always move back to St. Andrews to make it easy for me :-)
Anyway, consider yourself added.

Colin, can't see my name yet!

Kumamoto, Scotland....... or my old abode, St.Andrews, Scotland will be fine.
Regards,
Douglas

Its getting to be quite a sizeable list with many different talents colin, maybe we should start a support system through this thread cause we all know how hard it is to get our films made.

all these like minded people....thats a lot of gear and ideas.

Andy.

Colin, can't see my name yet!
Kumamoto, Scotland....... or my old abode, St.Andrews, Scotland will be fine.
Regards,
Douglas

Och aye the noo:

Paul Black Scotland
Mark Boggis Glasgow Scotland
Alastair Brown Glasgow Scotland
Scott Brown Aberdeen Scotland
Douglas Bruce Kumamoto City Scotland (?!)
Rikki Bruce Glasgow Scotland
Stuart Burns Dundee Scotland
Alex Calderhead Cumbernauld Scotland
Mark Campbell Dundee,Scotland
David Carter Glasgow Scotland
Scott Cassie Peterhead Scotland
James Collinson Glasgow Scotland
Nicole Dolder Edinburgh Scotland
George Duncan Burghead Scotland
Christopher Dunne Edinburgh Scotland
John Estcourt Ayrshire Scotland
Steve Garvie Fife Scotland
Jef Goddard Perth Scotland
David Graham Glasgow Scotland
Andy Graham Lanark Scotland
Henry Gray Selkirk Scotland
Duncan Grieve Glasgow Scotland
Derek Grogan Larbert Scotland
Neil Grubb Roslin, Midlothian Scotland
Roddy Horsfall Glasgow Scotland
Kathleen Little Glasgow Scotland
James Lundy West Lothian Scotland
Peter Mackay Inverness Scotland
Scott MacKenzie Glasgow Scotland
Gary Masson Aberdeen Scotland
Colin McCaffery Aberdeenshire Scotland
Colin McDonald Glasgow Scotland
Allen McLaughlin Paisley Scotland
John McPaul Inverclyde Scotland
Stewart Menelaws Scotland
John Millar Scotland
David Miller Edinburgh Scotland
Ross Milligan Scotland
Tom Park Glasgow Scotland
Mat Pringle Stirling Scotland
Eric A. Robinson Edinburgh Scotland
Martin D. Smith Dundee Scotland
John Steele Glasgow Scotland
Jennie Stenhouse Glasgow Scotland
James Strange Glasgow
Martin Trotter Scotland
Lenny Warren Glasgow Scotland
Sandy Watt Glasgow Scotland
Ian Wright Edinburgh Scotland
Keith Yuill Scotland

(The above came off the Excel doc as tab separated, but the formatting looked awful in Preview. Sorry if it's hard to read with just spaces).

Andy - good idea. I have a Canon XH-A1 + access to a couple of HV-30s, with W/A adaptors for each, and some fairly basic support. Audio: Rode mics and some Senny wireless gear and a Zoom H2. I'm always looking for to broaden my experience on audio and video.

We could start a series of posts for helping each other out.

I have a toy for every occasion:) JVC hd100, canon xl1s, glidecam v8, sennheisser me66, tascam da-p1, 2kw genirator, full post production studio with apple g5 quadcore , final cut studio 5, HD projector with 12 foot screen , 24 track fire wire phonic helix board and a sound proof ADR booth. a few home brewed bits of kit like a 4' jib, 12'crane, a large track and dolly that can accommodate the crane and a 100m cable system, a 4x4 quad atv with trailer and steadicam mount. You can see them all at work in my shadow land promo thread.

Also have a decent stock of replica pistols , machine guns and army clothing

Only thing is most of your list probably don't know about this thread, maybe there is a way to cc it to everyone?

Hi to my fellow Scots!
I film weddings mostly, in and around the North East from Fraserburgh to Aberdeen. I film exclusively in HD. I have two other businesses that I run so my time is always precious but if I can be of assistance in any way to any of you Scots on here, simply get in touch.
Yours aye, Gary

Hi to all . I am listed but only as Scotland. Actual location is Inverness. I am not very active at the moment. I bought an XL2 in preparation for retirement but when the time came I needed to keep busy and so set up a wildlife webcam installation business which has been keeping me out of trouble for a year now. The intention is to combine this with use of Xl2. The footage I usually get with the webcams is of a nest or play area etc I would hope to fillin with some aerial footage etc from Xl2. I do check in to this forum most days and try to keep up to date with developments.
Besdt wishes to all.

Home (http://www.wildlife-for-all.co.uk)

Hi Guys,
Just a phone call away if spare hands ever needed.
2x canon xh-a1 and 3.5 mtr jib arm + audio equip (fostex fr2le + mics etc etc)
cheers john

This could turn out to be a very useful post! Possibly even arrange a mini meet perhaps at some point in the future (as photography forums do).

Im based in Glasgow, got an HV20, wide angle lens for it, array of small lights (including DIY LED pack with gels), Steadicam JR, Rode Videomic, 2x Audio Technica AT35 etc

Do my editing on Sony Vegas Pro 8 with Magic Bullet and various other plugins tho mainly the Sony filters. Edit station is a quad core Intel Q6600 overclocked to 3.4GHz per core and with 4GB of RAM and 2.5TB of storage online.

I run the Strathycruise - The Scottish Modified Car & Cruise Scene Online (http://www.strathycruise.com) website, do video work for clubs, events, car shows and various other stuff : YouTube - Strathycruise's Channel (http://www.youtube.com/strathycruise) for some of my latest stuff and also www.vimeo.com/strathycruise

Always learning, always yearning for better gear. Was thinking of the A1 next but am doing ok with the HV20 (tho wish for better low light) so will see what comes of Scarlet when it ships "maybe" this year, or see if Canon or someone else comes out with something thats good and a worthy upgrade for the 20.

/essay :D

Hi there.

I stumbled across here so thought I would add myself to the list.

My day job is a camera assistant for commercials/features and operator ( occasionaly dop) for corporates/TV/documentary.

Looking for directors with interesting ideas to collaborate with as a dop on shorts and music videos.

My philosophy about camerawork is for the story to take priority then work with the director to create a feel for the film using light. I've an impressionistic ideology towards the camera and think mood is far more important than getting caught up in technicalities. I've learned that if something looks good then go with it rather than relying on a vectorscope to tell you it's 'correct'.

I've been lucky to work and train with some great DPs - Peter Deming (David Lynch's cameraman, Kathy Rain Li (Christopher Doyle's DP), Tony Imi, Robbie Ryan and lot's of others who I respect and have learned lots from.

Kit-wise I don't have that much - I have a Z1 (which I bought from James), some redheads, a blonde, a Bolex 16mm and other bits and bobs. I generally rent or borrow.

I've used pretty much most formats - 35mm, S16, HDCAM, RED, Genesis, Viper, HDV etc.

I'm really here just to see if there is anyone who wants to work on anything unusual and interesting. I'm always looking to get more dop experience and learn.

I've got a showreel here:

Cinematography SHowreel on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/3054882)

and can be contacted here:

Grant McPhee | Camera assistant and operator Scotland (http://www.grantmcphee.co.uk)

Thanks

Hi Grant and welcome, i had a look through your cv....very impressive, i loved the jacket, i take it you got to meet adrian brody and keira knightley?

Just curious how you got into that kind of work? i've tried my best but just couldn't find anything.

Andy.

Thanks for the welcome Andy!

Yeh, I did get to meet them. Keira was nice.

I found that I just had to persevere. I didn't really get much work for a few years and had to keep plugging away. Eventually I started to get enough work and meet people who knew about other jobs happening. Just building up a few contacts. Still very difficult and uncertain and still a long way to go. Very quiet at the moment.


Cheers

Hi, Grant. I can't edit the list posted above any more, but you are added on my main copy.

Hi I am based in Edinburgh and am doing a range of work including docs, corporate and some education work. I have just upgraded from Xl2 to EX3 with all the regular audio, lights and other kit one needs. I edit using FCP and have put together a full HD edit suit with a view to hooking the EX3 via its SDI output to some flash recording device once the prices become a bit more affordable, or at least that's the plan.
I recently did a masters at Edinburgh College of Art in Directing which was fun. In fact you may want to watch out for the master classes held there around once a month, where they bring in a director, producer or the like to speak about their work.

Latest events and key dates (http://www.docscene.org/Latest-events-and-key-dates.html)

If any one is ever looking for a hand, an extra cam, an editor, please get in touch.

Hi folks, I work mostly doing educational/public sector DVDs/fine art photography but this year I plan to break out and do much more of my own stuff. Always looking for new challenges and to learn new things! definitely up for collaborating with folk and sharing experiences and equipment. I am based in Glasgow but happy to travel too! Got myself a lovely ex1, lights, audio stuff, nikon lenses and a letus ultimate should be on it's way to me in the next couple of days! I'm looking to test out a canon 5D mkii to see if it's worth saving up for (I like the idea of it being so portable, where the ultimate won't be). let's all get scotland buzzing!

Tuesday, March 10 – 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Holiday Inn, 107 Queensway Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3HL

CALUMET (http://www.calumetphoto.co.uk/event/5873)

Anyone thinking of going?

Edinburgh Steadicam Workshop Tuesday, March 10 – 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
...Anyone thinking of going?

Make that a "no" - it's been cancelled.
Probably just as well - I might have bought a Merlin.

Just thought I'd give a little bump to the scottish thread.

Anyone got any interesting shoots planned over the winter?

I'm a wedding man myself, so Jan/Feb are pretty quiet for me (don't get me wrong its a welcome break!)

'Moan the Scots! ;)

James