Fraser Coull: Glasgow's Uwe Boll.

 Fraser Coull, the director of 'Night Is Day', was known to me some time before. He had made a web series of the same name. This was quasi mystical stuff; lots of guys in fields wearing judo suits and waxing about the dark and light side of life. Sub Lucas, sub Highlander stuff. When I heard Coull had received funding for a feature I became intrigued and not a little jealous. Through gritted teeth I wished online news of his new venture to be a success. He would go on to catalogue every step of his journey on YouTube, including the audition process.
 Attached as a comment to one of his clips and then subsequently removed, was a sneering note advising that Coull had a less than shining reputation and that "we all know how he treated his crew" on some earlier project. My ill will resurfaced and I watched in morbid fascination as a monied couple spoke on video about how their production company 'Goldray' was going to finance the "movie" and how much they were looking forward to making the film. A friend of mine, seeing that some notes about the film mentioned monsters, offered his services through Youtube. Coull declined. An example of my friend's work is on my profile image.
 A year later and the first trailer for 'Night Is Day' turned up on YouTube. To say it looked like an am dram society's staging of a 'River City' episode might be trite, but it did look that way. That vanished comment echoed in my head again. I sensed that things might not be going altogether swimmingly when I took a look at the awful monsters, hoodies wearing mache masks made by five year olds it seemed, that appeared. Add to that the awkward acting and less than smooth cutting, it looked embarrassing.
 One gets the sense that Coull writes his movies, if you can call stark digital video footage a movie, makes them then turns them over to his financiers to try and make head or tail of. I admit that I have not seen the finished film, but I did see Coull and his coterie at the 2O11 Braehead Glasgow SciFi convention where his footage had been turd polished with passable CGI effects. He then raised money to fly himself to LA where it seems he met Uwe Boll who looked interested in buying Coull's film for distribution.
 This morning Coull has turned up on twitter to announce his comedy film 'Get Funded'. This seems to be a heist movie about Glasgow filmmakers going to any lengths to have their film made. On early "promo" posters Goldray are nowhere to be seen. It looks fucking awful; lest we forget, Coull lauded the Glasgow 'Comedy' 'Fast Romance' a speed dating flick directed by the stunt coordinator from 'River City', based in the city, that was less funny than 'The Killing Fields'.
 Coull seems to need to be told that just because he calls something a heist, a fantasy or a comedy it doesn't just suddenly become one.

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Exactly.