Promotional filming for Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024The biggest celebration of arts and culture on the planet… is turning GREEN, WHITE and RED! 💚🤍❤️  As Edinburgh kicks into festival mode, it was great for Aarol Films to be asked to produce promotional film for the...

An Evening with The Pictish Trail✅ Disco ball 🪩✅ Selection of flavoured Crisps ✅ Framed photos of yesteryears local legends🏏Welcome to Leith’s Cricket Club… the unlikely intimate gig venue for “An evening with Pictish Trail”, the alias of Scottish pop sensation Johnny...

How video can build up student confidence for univeristy?The LEAPS “Transitions Course” gives widening participation school students the 'uni' experience before starting for real 🙌🎓 Run by the amazing LEAPS team, with visiting academics from Edinburgh Napier...

Free Love perform at Hidden Door Festival, EdinburghWarning: Contains far too many strobe lights and good tunes for a blog post 💃🏼🕺🎶 Remember the former Scottish Widows office complex? …Well, you should of seen em’ at the weekend! 🕺🎶 Edinburgh’s Hidden Door Festival...

What was Scotland's relationship with Russia during The Cold War?Aarol Films was asked by National Museum of Scotland to record interviews for their latest resource, Scotland : Cold War Battleground, Nuclear Scotland and The Scottish Society produced by Jessica...

"This is a family. You are my family. And I love you to the end of the world and back. Thank you”.  Touching words to film from Jen Blackwell, Creative Founder of Dance Syndrome, said before their final show at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  DanceSyndrome’s vision is to...

Huge congrats to Jane McAllister at NEW LiCHT FiLMS on last nights packed out screening for her first feature documentary, “To See Ourselves” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎥   “Most grainular depiction of Scotland during that time” Pat Kane, Q&A host called the film, I...

This weekend was Record Store Day, one day of the year when over 260 independent record shops all across the UK come together to celebrate the culture. However it is not just about record collectors expanding their Discogs database with exclusive releases for the day,...

Hear from students studying in Scotland for some top tips for going to university in the UK 🎓⭐ Grading system is not there to trip you up ✅ There is support at university, so use it 🎓 Create your networks ✅ Be confident 🏆 Stay motivated ✅ Be proud 🙌 Aarol Films have...

Real pleasure to film (albeit high up) the closing gala for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival in a packed out The King's Theatre & Theatre Royal Glasgow at the weekend. Great job by compere, susan mccabe, the talent-crammed cheerio had the likes of Rich...

Handwritten by a care home patient, a poem was found by nurses shortly after her passing. Articulating the realities of growing old, What Do You See? expresses how she perceived her surroundings an in turn comments on how it looked at her. The short film will be...

What Do You See? has been officially selected for Stories Lived. In there own words, Stories Lived hosts inspirational videos and motivational videos that move and inspire us to be the best version of ourselves we can be.  It is a unique site in which one can see,...

What Do You See? Handwritten by a care home patient, a poem was found by nurses shortly after her passing. Articulating the realities of growing old, What Do You See? expresses how she perceived her surroundings an in turn comments on how it looked at her. What Do You...

The Red Bus. An original 1962 London routemaster that spends its retirement cruising around Edinburgh. Got to use a wee bit of the auld 8mm. Good times.

In a wee town hall up in the highlands, it is mandatory that all school children dance to Garden of Elks; For at least an hour, every first Sunday of the month. Directed by Graeme Roger, I helped out by filming the evidence/music video. Below, Roger and Mike Webster,...

I wasn’t allowed to do art in my last year of high school. The head of the department said I painted too small. Give me a bigger brush was my response. This week I have been a member of Leaps, an organisation focused on supporting students as they apply for further...

Over looking Edinburgh College of Art as a sort of Panopticon tower is the Scottish Documentary Institute. Never knowing if they are watching or not, we as students at Edinburgh College of Art don’t risk it and always behave. Last summer I was asked by them to film a...

Recently I created short films for Scottish Wildlife Trust to raise awareness and save the red squirrel!  This gave me the opportunity to work with its Ambassadors, Simon King, Stephen Jardine and Mark Beaumont to create short clips. All filming was recorded at SWT’s...