Carter Ferguson : Fight Director : Scotland : UK

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Fightdirector.com is here to provide independent information on fight direction for production companies, fight directors, choreographers, fencers, actors, directors, producers, AD's and the general public. It is also the personal website of Carter Ferguson, a professional, non-affiliated fight director, based in Scotland. Carter has 14 years experience working as a professional FD on over 400 productions.

JUNE 2009

PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM ALWAYS SEEKING NEW WORK, AND AM VERY KEEN AT THE MOMENT TO BUILD NEW RELATIONSHIPS WITH POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS. PLEASE GET IN TOUCH IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS A FUTURE PROJECT OF ANY KIND.

MY SPECIALITY IS SWORDS BUT I AM VERY EXPERIENCED IN ALL AREAS OF DRAMATIC COMBAT INCLUDING CGI INTEGRATION AND BLUE SCREEN WORK.

For the next few months I will be focussing my weekends on my own feature film Fast Romance - a film about love life and speed dating that will prove just three minutes with a complete stranger can chnage your life forever.

Although a romantic comedy, I have still managed to get several battle scenes into it and thats what we will start on next weekend in Glasgow. A former Soviet state terrorist situation with British Army in close quarter gunfights. I mean , whats the point of making your own feature film if you don't get to make something a little bit fun. There aren't enough battle scenes in Romantic Comedies I reckon.

ABOVE: William Ruane in The Rage - Ickleflix 2008

Anyway if you want to know about that or any of the other films I've made over the past year go to my film company site ickleflix.com

If you have any specific suggestions for this site or have spotted a dead link or error please feel free to get in touch.

DIARY

Above: Idris Elba in Black Camel's latest film Legacy.

It's terrible when a chunk of time passes and I don't manage a web update, as people start to think I've given up or some such thing. But the real reason is that I've been run off my feet, and not just on my regular gigs such as Taggart (RIP).

I've had some terrific gigs in my last few months. Of note is One Night In Emergency with Kevin McKidd, Ewen Bremnar, Gary Lewis and my old River City buddy Tam Dean Burn. This one hour BBC drama was directed by the terrific Michael Offer who really stood out for me as a director. From a fight perspective it's so good to have a director who's thought ahead and Michael certainly did that. He understood the necessity of a fight director, and of the inclusion of safety apparatus, and didn't ask for anything ludicrous as some directors do. Michael was the opposite and working again with Kevin McKidd was a pleasure. I've known him since college and he still is a terrific actor.

Above is a still from Dani's House, a childrens BBC programme I've been working on intermitantly, with a great and funny cast and a real nice feel to it. I've enjoyed that one, with sumo wrestling fat suits and all. Again a great and experienced director with an eye on safety and clever staging was Graeme Harper of Doctor Who fame.

Finally I'll have to say a little about working on Black Camel's latest feature, Legacy. Black Camel in themselves stand out from the crowd as they are a Glasgow based company who are actually out there making genre feature films such as Outpost. Legacy is perhaps best described as a psychological thriller with action elements. To be truthful, they brought in stunt boys and doubled the actors for the real big nasty fight and I did the piddling small actiony bits around the edges, but it bought me 5 days with some AMAZING ACTORS. Idris Elba and Clark Peters from THE WIRE - a programme I love as you can see from my links to the left - were totally charming and totally briliant, in fact many of the actors were. Anyway look out for that one as it's going to be worth a watch.

Below: Kevin McKidd, One Night In Emeregency - BBC.