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

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.



https://youtu.be/nTWgCLXvs1o

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/

10/09/2021

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 : https://youtu.be/-siXbhuWlyw

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...

08/05/2021

Continuing on with our ' ' series, here's our new vid on 'How Not To Make Sushi...' from and son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA9E_lL5pOY

Much can be learned by watching masters at work, but also much can be learned from watching inexperienced fools trying something new without doing any resear...

02/05/2021

From The Archives: Teannaich : Live at the HMV in 2012 : Canadian Barndance. One of our more popular recordings. https://youtu.be/_gV7kbMinIM

Shot at the HMV Picturehouse on 24th August 2012 by Raptor Filmz Ltd.www.raptorfilmz.com

07/03/2021

Ah yes, one of my first forays into green screen comedy... Testing the morph suit against the .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HycFogLLRmg

Test-driving the Tube Tape Green Suit from www.tubetape.com.Music by David Rose.Green Screen & Green Suit Effects by Raptor Filmz Ltd.© Raptor Filmz 2012http...

28/02/2021

We used to have quite a lot of English Students back in our old small windowless cupboard of an office, and one was Wojciech. A nice young lad from Poland. We made this video together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jmBqcvCVzs

Wojciech visits Scotlandhttps://www.facebook.com/RaptorFilmzhttps://twitter.com/RaptorFilmzhttp://www.raptorfilmz.com

21/02/2021

From the Archives: I filmed my son running up and down the local soccer pitch in Livingston and added dramatic music. We still have this soccer ball which was far too big for him at the time. He is now faster than me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsiMBbfXsMQ

For the editing and creation of DVDs of your home movies in Scotland, contact us at [email protected]! https://www.facebook.com/RaptorFilmzhttps://twitte...

14/02/2021

From the archives! Back in the old days when I'd just set up our small company and thought it would be amusing to interview myself... The video in the green screen background is of a Tokyo skyline, with a fake moon setting. Raptor Filmz Interview https://youtu.be/pKmtT0x8qZA

Our first interview as Raptor Filmz. With none other than ... Chris Young! Of ... er ... Raptor Filmz. http://www.raptorfilmz.comhttps://www.facebook.com/Rap...

07/02/2021

This video won us first prize in a short film night at The Pink Cow, Tokyo, Japan in 2011 or thereabouts. One of three music videos we did for J.J. Vicars in exchange for his composing music for our feature length amateur Sci Fi film 'Ripped'. https://youtu.be/_hzNtG3RRm0

This video won us first prize in a short film night at The Pink Cow, Tokyo, Japan in 2011 or thereabouts. One of three music videos we did for J.J. Vicars in...

03/02/2021

Have a look at the crowdfunder for this great film about dementia. A worthwhile project. Please have a look and if you like what you see I'm sure they'd really appreciate even a small contribution or share to spread the word :)

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mr-wong-s-lullaby-a-short-film-about-dementia/x/16105893?fbclid=IwAR0j0lH1FedRryjgQESP_7xEQS8tRqfhVHiAOmDShkLeLEfMSLHG6evVA2Q #/

This is short film which explores the everyday battles of caring for someone with dementia. | Check out 'Mr Wong's Lullaby - A short film about dementia' on Indiegogo.

31/01/2021

From the archive : When I first moved to Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland way back in 2012, I thought "Ooh, I should make a short video about it!" So I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlykrDw1aK4

When I first moved to Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland way back in 2012, I thought "Ooh, I should make a short video about it!" So I did.

26/01/2021

From The Archives : All the way back in 2012, after getting my Canon XH-A1 relatively well balanced on my new Merlin Steadicam, I take it out into the corridor of our office space for a test drive. Happy days! Bit better at using it now though ... https://youtu.be/bnSB5GGKcDY

After getting my Canon XH-A1 relatively well balanced on my new Merlin Steadicam, I take it out into the corridor of our office space for a test drive. http:...

24/01/2021

From the archives! This is the first chapter of a picture book I tried to create to help young children just starting studying learn the sounds of the letters. Quite challenging for youngsters. Aa Apple's Great Escape! https://youtu.be/grTxO4P7clY

This is a very short video of me reading from a kid's story book I've developed for children aged 2 or 3, designed to get them familiar with the letters of t...

22/01/2021

New content! Chris Young shares his hints and tips from filming 130 weddings over 9 years in the industry.



https://youtu.be/hOhjo_k6MEM

Chris Young of White Orchid Weddings and Raptor Filmz gives up his hints and tips for filming weddings after 9 years' and 130 weddings of experience.

17/01/2021

Raptor Filmz From The Archive: Gavin Plays The Blues (2012). I was walking through with my camera and chanced upon this fine busker playing some great slide electric on Princes Street.
http://ow.ly/u0hO50CUUFZ

'Dust my Broom' by Robert Johnson, performed by Gavin one sunny Friday June day on Princes Street, Edinburgh.Check out more of Gavin's music at http://www.my...