What's your Fanshawe Story? Pat Greenall - Police Foundations

Fanshawe has helped the student succeed from an educational perspective. Knowledgeable textbooks filled with layers of answers hidden within the depth of texts and the professors there to watch you grow and prepare for the real world.

Hands-on, in-class experience, connections created through internships and valued references are gained from a Fanshawe experience.

Police Foundations graduate Patrick Greenall has a different story to tell and has created one of the biggest buzzes in and around campus in a while.

Imagine this: Americas Funniest Home Videos minus the reaction videos of kids finding out Santa is not real and adding alcohol to every scene.

Greenall’s familiar face pops up everywhere around London reporting on tough questions like “What sport is played at Homecoming?” and “What was your most memorable drunk experience?”

Armed with only a mic, a camera and a witty attitude, Greenall is on a mission to help bring back the fun factor of the college night life and to remind people why drinking and being interviewed clash in the most epically horrible hybrid.

“My reporting career is going well, and it’s very fun,” he said. “I have a very fun time doing this with my friends and making videos. I will be interviewing Russel Peters next week, and lately I have had a lot of different people ask to interview me. I do this for fun and as a hobby over anything.”

In the generation of Internet trolling and dark humour, Greenall sure knows his market, winning over 5,000 YouTube subscribers with view counts nearing 250,000, 750 Twitter followers and 550 Facebook likes.

These stats only prove that people think Greenall’s a funny guy, but there is a lot more happening. You could have the best college degree, best references and grades, but when you are aiming at a career in the arts, a social media following is the most important factor because fans are pinnacle to your success, and the best way to reach them is through the Internet.

Any talented reporter will tell you that the environment in which you are reporting defines your end result and Greenall credits this as his main reason for attending Fanshawe.

“Fanshawe has helped me because the people there and the environment there caused me to be the character on YouTube that I am now,” said Greenall. “I actually started at Fanshawe doing pranks last year where I did a pillow fight prank, and I would hit people with pillows during exam time and people really liked that, so I’ve been doing stuff ever since.”

Greenall is not all fun and games though. He plans on using his diplomas at Fanshawe as a means of continuing education to earn a university degree.

You can check him out here at youtube.com/user/PGfreerun.