Whilst still a student, Dominic Johnson worked as a stagehand on several low-budget theatre productions, including "Brigadoon" and "An Inspector Calls". He also spent a few months during his gap year as a runner at The Mailbox, the BBC's West Midlands base, working primarily on the local news show. He also spent two weeks in Los Angeles working for an English producer, cutting together a teaser trailer for a prospective feature film project to be called "Magenta: The Colour of Blood". After returning to the UK to study for a Higher National Diploma in Media, Johnson continued on in this capacity on an extra-curricular project: a teaser trailer for a potential documentary about film censorship, which also become his first directorial outing, called "Nice Cans, Great Movie". For his thesis film, he made his first venture into narrative filmmaking with "First Person Singular". After graduation, he continued on in the short form, making two internationally acclaimed short films - "Ceiling Unlimited" and Kissproof".
