September 2020 - The Diary

Shot some extra footage for A PERFECT WORLD this month and prep for ORIGINS OF THE LAOICH began this month, with Gaelic coaching and fight rehearsals! First up in September was another trip down South to St Albans to shoot a COLOPLAST UK Training Video, as the 'live' gigs have all now been 

put on hold for the forseeable future due to the current pandemic. Just lovely to see the team again and really enjoyable work as per usual with these guys. Then back to Glasgow for the first of our fight rehearsals for ORIGINS at Websters Theatre in Glasgow's West End.

A wonderful room in which to rehearse and such fun wielding a broadsword once more! Thanks to Sonja Blietschau for these amazing, atmospheric photographs which were taken during my and Holly Jack's

days of rehearsals, training with STRIKE fight choreographers. More to come on this project later! Was really pleased to be asked by my old pal Mark Buckland to play the role of William in his debut film, SUCH GRACE,THE THIEF, which we shot in one evening in early September, pictured below. 

Lots more auditions followed, and another roleplay booking from POLICE SCOTLAND care of Paul Hughes and hosted by Badenoch & Clark. Worked with a fab team of actors and co-ordinators on this

project, which ran for two months and which will hopefully go again in the future. 

Finally, my episode of BLOOD OF THE CLANS was screened again on BBC4 and is now available on the BBC Iplayer if you missed it! Late in September we finally shot the teaser trailer for Fraser Coull's series ORIGINS OF THE LAOICH at some epic locations, including the cliffs of Arbroath. As you can

see from these location shots, this series looks amazing. Our fight scenes were excellent, and with the special effects to be added, this mystical adventure series should attract a lot of interest from broadcasters

as it goes out to Producers over the next few months, once the edit is completed and further funding

sought to add effects, music and post production costs. An absolute pleasure to work on with a great cast and production team and a really fun and enjoyable shoot once again. It rounded off another really good month for me and really enjoyed these gigs, especially the way things are at the moment!