When I refer to a Season, I always refer to what I want to produce as a batch, ending up with a complete and finished set of works (possibly combined into a single presentation) before moving on to others in my collection. The pieces may see parallel development, but I've been trounced too many times from past work in other industries that have destroyed my ability to finish tasks to set time limits on it all. I've started and failed to finish two MA's now due to over-work in FE colleges.

The pieces that I choose therefore, I know to be achievable in short time periods.

At the moment, I have about three dozen completely finished scripts that need to be made, ranging from 4 - 45mins in duration, covering mainly the contemporary and SF genres. I also have complete features and series fleshed out (complete with look-books etc.) - the last one of which was done for an MA in film with Raindance.

Because of my background in non-commercial film and also because of teaching in various drama schools etc. they are all achievable, even if some of them need my specific skills area (i.e. CG) to fully complete.

I'm looking at tackling three pieces in this current season.

I'm Craig Robinson, and I've been involved in CG / Design and IT since I was about 6 years old, so that's getting on for half a century. I decided ultimately to go into IT as a career (I'm a Chartered IT Professional specialising in Software and Databases, as well as a qualified teacher), so all of my CG and Design, as well as filmmaking (which I've been doing for the last two decades) has always been a side-line.

Ironically my highest academic qualifications (a PgDip) is in Digital Design and Design for Performance and Events, so it never gets used professionally!

As such, my production background is in the non-commercial and amateur world (note, money - not skill - the community has been around since 1934 with some of those filmmakers still around!), so I have certain ways in which I like to work. One of them involves using as small a crew as possible, and preferably in areas which individuals are not totally used to for skills environment (that's a teacher thing). Some things, like sound, I like to have skilled operators - this is because my full range of hearing (frequencies) is all messed up from operating in the wrong environments for too many years.

While I wear all hats, and have produced film completely solo, my specialist areas in film are Scriptwriting, Editing, SFX/VFX (including completely digital environments) as well as Camera and Direction.

Also because of my production background, I have built my own kit bag over the years rather than hire, so this includes a high quality full-frame 35mm DSLR camera setup (Sony Alpha99); a Canon Cinema-EOS compatible setup (XC-10, considered a B-Camera in the CEOS family) which I use a lot because of its flexibility and 4K, run-and-shoot nature; an original BMPCC giving super-16 digital-film qualities; and a BMPCC 6K super-35 13-stop HDR digital film camera. Naturally, if people can make use of this camera range in filming and I'm involved, I can certainly make it available if people find it desirable to use. Just be aware, in that in the later two cases (especially the BMPCC6k), you can build vast data-stores very quickly, and you also need the computer to process it!