Raptor Filmz

11/06/2023

The Luminari audiobook, written & narrated by Chris R Young, is now live!

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Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Dogged detective Jake Jones is a sleuth-hound in a City of corrupt cops, drug overlords, power-hungry politicians, femmes fatales and low down, no-good hoods who’d rather chew your arm off than use their turn signals. When his classy new client, Lu...

25/05/2023

Dogged detective Jake Jones is a sleuth-hound in a City of corrupt cops, drug overlords, power-hungry politicians, femmes fatales and low down, no-good hoods who’d rather chew your arm off than use turn signals. When his classy new client, Lucida Grande, strolls into his office and gets poisoned in his visitor chair even before hiring him to find her sister, Gill Sans, he just can’t let sleeping dogs lie...

Order the ebook, paperback, hardback or audiobook here -> https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C47TCCVR

(100% written by a human)

30/10/2022

To celebrate Hallowe'en weekend here is our spooky choose-your-own-adventure film 'Trapped' on Youtube. Can you survive the night ...? 👻 🐺 🔪 🧟‍♂️

An experimental interactive first person shooter promoting the Raptor Filmz 2016 Short Scottish Film Festival.Will only work on a desktop. Some strobe effect...

25/10/2022

Brand new ! How To Edit Together 25 fps and 29.97 fps clips on without using Compressor. If you have one short clip of one frame rate messing everything up, what's your workaround? Check out mine:

https://youtu.be/UmKiMHWvsvg

How To Edit Together 25 fps and 29.97 fps on FCPX Without Compressor

10/09/2022

01/09/2022

Art & animation courses in Livingston!

Many thanks and welcome to our latest sponsor, West Lothian-based Wexpresif!

With 4 well-equipped art/photography studios in Geddes House, Livingston, they offer numerous art/animation clubs from 5 year old to adults, as well as evening classes/workshops, life drawing plus much more. And if you're looking to add colour to your film projects, you've just found your one-stop shop for creativity 🎨

Check out their great artwork on their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/WEXPRESIF

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wexpresif/

and website: https://www.wexpresif.co.uk

WEXPRESIF

13/06/2022

New gamer video for all the first person shooters out there. Apex Game #1: Can the Rev make it count?

Many thanks to fellow squad members for having my back and permission to share.

Ammo up! It's Revenant on Storm Point.

29/10/2021

Raptor Filmz Ltd is proud to be running the Scottish Short Film Festival again this year! Submissions open 🎥 🎬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Well, things are ramping up and we already have some early bird entries!

Some figures for the stat lovers out there:

Films entered as of yesterday : 7
Of which: Short : 1, Medium : 4, Long: 1, Extra Long : 1

Total run time:1 hour 22 mins
UK Premieres : 4
Origin: UK : 6, Unspecified : 1
Genres: Sci Fi Drama: 1, Comedy: 1, Dark Comedy: 1, Horror: 1, Drama: 2, Docs: 1

Chance of Official Selection : High
Chance of winning an award : High

Many thanks to all who have entered so far 🎬

We welcome short cinema with some relation to Scotland made in the last year, including 48hr film projects, experimental films, animations and especially films made by or depicting those who feel they are otherwise under-represented in the industry 🎥

Submit here: https://filmfreeway.com/ScottishShortFilmFestival

The SSFF is sponsored by:

Glasgow's Acting Coach Scotland
https://actingcoachscotland.co.uk/



Private House Stays:
https://www.privatehousestays.com/
https://www.facebook.com/privatehousestays1



And Thomas Haywood Aerial Photography
https://www.thomashaywood.com/

28/07/2021

Just to let people know I will be on holiday from 1st to 13th August so I won't be able to answer any messages during that time - sorry about that! I will get back to any enquiries as soon as I get back to the office :) - Chris

16/05/2021

Having just opened up a videographer business, I was keen to experiment. Just Desserts is a that was mostly improvised by the great actors. Originally meant to be an ad for Morrisons, they sadly declined to buy it. ttps://youtu.be/DWGwQ8MRcfI

A picnic goes horribly wrong

09/05/2021

From The Archives : This is my second test with the green morph suit, using it for puppetry. The Naughty Princess (2012) was a short fairy tale I made up on the spot using a castle I had made with my young son :

Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a castle, and in that castle lived a naughty princess. In what ways she was naughty is never clearly expla...