Field Marshal Drever, the housewives favourite, is an award-winning TV director/producer.He started his career making skateboard films, which he's been doing for years. He founded UKVM, the UK's first quarterly skateboard video magazine in 2001. Since then he's done lots of TV stuff for a whole heap of channels, lots of promos, a few docs and founded Grain Media with the hairy hippy who lives down the road. He's even had work in the ICA and the Helsinki Museum of modern art, but he is catagorically not an artiste and he definitely doesn't own any brogues. He likes to quell his extensive dark side by doing bits of youth work and occasionally runs film workshops 'for the kids'.
Although predominately grumpy, if you give him tea he'll be nice. Click here to see Jon in action.
Count Orlando von Einsiedel, a human exclamation mark, is a film maker, writer, ex pro-snowboarder and most excited man on the planet. He has produced and directed several acclaimed and award-winning documentaries, promos and short features for a diverse ranage of TV networks. He's even written for lots of publications, although if you were to meet him you might think he likes to communicate using only expressive dance routines and the universal language of hugging. He's even done some presenting work. He's the co-founder of Grain Media, and by far the hardest working.
When not involved with any of the above Orlando can be found reading social anthropology/development, producing videos for charities and sporting a hairy chest. Click here to see a much younger Orlando in action.
Able Seaman Christopher White. Chris White heralds from Tasmania, which, amazingly enough, is actually a part of Australia. The old man of the office, Chris is a genius in the edit. Where he fails in social skills he makes up for in sheer technical ability. He's got us out of many a scrape in the past and we're very happy to have him on board as a full time member of staff. And yes, he can count to 10 and no, his mother isn't his sister. Click here to see an example of Chris' editing/grading.
Fraser "The Rat" Byrne. Least likely to say "anyone for a cuppa?", most likely to say "mmmnngghh, it wasn't me", "Put a rattle on", "I need a reset", "I'll have a nibble" or anything else that makes little sense. Total emo steez, Fraser is the rat amongst monkeys. A dab hand with graphics, an awful tea maker, a great producer of promos, Fraser has his finger on the pulse more than most. He's got more TV show ideas than tight, ill-fitting, girl's shirts (and that's a lot), he will one day create the uber TV format of the 21st Century and Grain will be there dragging him all the way to success, the lazy *%&! Keep your eyes peeled for Vagabondz in 2008. With Fraser at the helm, what could possibly go wrong?... Click here to enter Fraser's strange and scary world
Sir Richard "Let's Hope He's Not a Nutcase" Frazer esq. The newest member of the Grain cult, Richard has been hand plucked by Grain from the swathes of applicants for the editor / petting dog post we published before Christmas '07. He got the job for his quite astounding graphics skills, his editing experience and his willingness to make tea and listen to Orlando's tales of when he "Dropped the biggest cliff in the 'Hoff, Dude". It had nothing to do with his large dreadlocks that we fear may hold a mutiny of their own and seize control of the Grain Mothership. We're firmly keeping our fingers crossed that he's not a psycho. Click here to see some of Richard's graphics
richard@grainmedia.co.uk
Princess Lucile Weigel. Growing up on a sun drenched and palm fringed island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Lucile has somehow found herself living in London and working at Grain Media. Perhaps not the world's best decision. Still, her loss has been Grain's gain and she has quickly taken control of all the paperwork and production logistics that the rest of us either don't understand or try to avoid. A speaker of several languages (English not being one of them), Princess Weigel is most likely to be very hyperactive, bark orders at everyone and make friends with world's weirdest people. A pussy cat on the outside, we are all secretly terrified of Lucile's plans for world domination and a hostile Grain Media takeover. Click here to see an example of Lucile's directing work.