Being a runner on Living TV’s fourth season of ‘Britain’s Next Top Model’ in 2008 was an amazing experience. Reality TV doesn’t get much more intense than this.
Set in a post-apocalyptic Scotland after the deadly ‘reaper’ virus has decimated the population, sufferers turn into flesh eating zombies and those immune, into cannibals. Hadrian’s Wall has been rebuilt in an attempt to quarantine Scotland but when the virus breaks out in London, a small group of soldiers are sent over the wall to find suspected survivors, and if possible, a cure.
I was a production and catering runner on Neil Marshall’s third feature film, ‘Doomsday‘. I was involved with the filming in the various locations in Scotland in 2007.
I was a runner for the ghost-hunting show ‘Fit & Fearless‘ the freeview channel Nuts TV. I was invoved in 6 episodes, filming in various haunted locations around Britain in 2007.
This often involved sitting alone in the dark, in the middle of the night, in the scariest places in Britain, waiting to scare scantily-clad women. One of my stranger runner jobs.
Adult content as part of the Magazine and online company Nuts.
This was my first professional experience in film. I was a production trainee on Richard Jobson’s award-winning film ‘16 Years of Alcohol‘. It was filmed in Scotland in 2002. Richard Jobson was nominated for Best Director in the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2004.
I was a production trainee involved in hiring and casting 200 extras, and general production duties on set and in the office.
I was a runner for an episode of a pilot comedy sketch-show called ‘The Cowards‘. It was filmed for BBC 4, in Glasgow, 2008. It aired in January and Febuary 2009.
I was involved with Sweet TV during the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This was an internet tv channel set up to report on the events of the Fringe. This is a short story about J. K. Rowling taken from when she appeared at the 2004 Edinburgh International Book Festival to launch her 5th book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.