Born in the Highlands of Scotland, as a youngster Calum began making videos as a hobby. His love of television and films made him study an HND course, Creative Industries: TV at North East Scotland College in Aberdeen. This allowed him to learn and refine the many skills required in the industry and to specialise in Camera and Editing through work on various projects.

He then graduated with a BA (Hons) in Television at Edinburgh Napier University. During his studies he worked with others on Short Films, Music Videos, Documentaries and many more.

In 2016 when as D.O.P he helped produce an award-winning short film called "Sam" when working at the BFI Film Academy in Aberdeen. One of his proudest moments was when “Sam” won the "Best Live Action, 13-19 years" Film at the Scottish Youth Film Festival.

Since an early age he has loved to create stories - from badly drawn comics, to short films. Now, he has the abilities to tell stories through video content. Black Thistle Media is the Internet presence for Calum, who is currently based in Edinburgh. He is a Director of Photography and has the skills to operate in the roles of Producer, Editor, Runner and Director.

He learned a lot through working with Dementia Sufferers and the Scottish War Blinded as part of the “Luminate Festival”, an arts festival in Edinburgh. He gathered an insight into documenting those who despite their physical or mental disabilities had some amazing stories to tell.

For his final project at University he decided to make a Documentary about a lady from the Isle of Lewis with Multiple Sclerosis who fundraised to get Stem Cell Treatment in Mexico. As part of this he went to Mexico in February 2018 to capture a part of the Documentary over there. He was awarded, against stiff competition, a Santander Universities Mobility Grant to fund a lot of this Documentary.

By working with a variety of people on several projects he has had the pleasure of telling the stories of ordinary yet remarkable people.

Calum has the skills, knowledge and ability to plan, shoot and produce a quality finished product for a broad variety of projects.