​​Toy Terror

Shot in 2000

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One kid finds out that 'toys have feelings too' ​

and hopefully never to speak in an ​

American accent again!

Almost my FIRST ever shortfilm.

​This was the first time i got help from

another collaborator, my school friend Richard Bayliss

(remember that name he starred in a couple too).

the camcorder i had been given was an old

Sony handicam 8mm that had been left in the loft

for years and as a result was slightly warped and broken.

to make it work we had to turn it on and off

several times and press rec,

when we heard the struggling sound of it finally click,

we had to do the scene straight away otherwise it was a no go.

also the battery pack was useless so we

had to have the camera run off the mains, with a

lead that didn't reach very far.

All this lead to my first shorts being constricted

to inside my house and with that in mind i came

upon the idea of an action/horror short done on a

small scale (pun intended). please feel free to

comment on my "American accent" (i am British btw).

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​Don't Answer The Phone 2

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shot in 2001

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A student receives an ominous phone call and has to

try and hide from a masked man who plays mind games.

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A short sequel to a stalk and slash type film we made

(i was the hero/victim in the first one).

This one starring Richard Bayliss (Bayl) in his best

performance ever!.

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Filmed with a slightly better

canon hi 8mm camcorder that had a side view monitor

(yes that was practically unheard of for us!!),

best of all we could charge the battery and go outside.

Filmed on and around our high school during

a 2 hour free period before lunch.

 Obviously a scream parody and we'd just seen

the movie ROADKILL (joyride in other countries),

which definitely influenced at least some of the dialogue

(badly mind you). i still look back on this short

with fond memories, the sequence we shot while

Bayl's character is going through the woods

whilst his phone spills out the Halloween theme still

feels well played to me.

Have a watch and let me know what you think,

better yet post a comment

and i'll pass it on to Bayl!

​Reality Check ​​

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Shot between 2003-2005

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An avid gamer ignores his college work ​

and his friends in favour of playing on his games console. ​

However when he fires up a zombie shoot em up ​

late at night, he finds himself somehow lost between ​

the game and reality itself......​ ​

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 My famous​ un-finished film!​​​
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WHAT began as a stroke of genius, to make a fully fledged movie, turned into a living nightmare.....almost parodying the script!​

We shot on weekends and whenever we could at my parents house.​

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​This is merely a trailer of what was to come.​​

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Although i am re-writing this for​

an anthology feature i have planned in​

the future.​​​​

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Spirit Trap​

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Shot in September 2009

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A young man goes metal detecting in an old Forrest ​

and finds something in the ground that's been waiting for him

for a long long time.

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After the failure of Reality Check i had practically

given up on filmmaking and the entire medium.

I had made the odd thing here and there but nothing

that made me proud!.

I still wrote film ideas down all the time and i was finding

i couldn't keep them in anymore, this story in

particular wouldn't let me go.​

After exploring an old abandoned house

near my parents in Scotland, i knew i had a location

for another idea i'd had.

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BINGO! i shot this over the course of 2 weekends ​

with my brother Samuel Gibson

(who was only 13 at the time!), he shot almost everything

and helped me crank out another classic

(maybe).

This was the first time i really used props ​

and had to make a sign (wow) also i had never

edited sound and audio to create an atmosphere in a short

before.

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Watch this short that saved me as a filmmaker

and try to imagine how difficult it was for me to get infront,

behind and around that camcorder again.