Video of the Day: ‘Machine Stopped Working’

[krvod url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJi4RyV-H90]Machine Stopped Working is a short sci-fi film created for the Sci-Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge by Bubblegum and Batwings. Filmed and completed in just 48 hours, Machine Stopped Working is set in a futuristic, industrial wasteland where humans have found a robot capable of healing others.

Bubblegum and Batwings are Anthony Melton and Ben Franklin (no, not that Ben Franklin) of Bloody Cuts, a grindhouse style movie production company based in the U.K. They had last entered the Sci-Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge in 2011, and that competition had been the inspiration for them to form their production company.

The challenge is to make a sci-fi film, not over five minutes in length, utilizing three assets: a title, a prop and a line of dialogue. Each team has only 48 hours to go from principal photography to final cut.

It was shot on location at ‘Sibelco’ a Belgian mineral and metal extraction company, who graciously let them run around their sand quarry based in Leziate, Norfolk with a giant robot and an arsenal of stage prop automatic weapons over the weekend. The robot itself was borrowed from Millenium FX, and a great many of the props came from The Prop Store of London, who provided a small truckload of guns, costumes, and a prop that had originally been used on the set of Prometheus.

This team of filmmakers has captured lightning in a bottle.

Enjoy.

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Cast

Tom Sawyer – Watts
Kate Braithwaite – Seeva
Dominic Kinnaird – Cale
Paul Jibson – Kurtz
Richard Garaghty – The Robot

Crew List

Jonny Franklin – Director Of Photography
Joel Morgan – Writer
Patrick Jonsson – Composer
Rory Harper – 1st AD
James Hills- 1st AC
Chris Goodman – Art Director
Kate Walshe – Producer / SFX Supervisor
Charlotte Barrett – Costume
Christabel Franklin – Makeup
Laura Grey – Makeup Assistant
Melissa Franklin – Production Assistant
Laurentiu Maria – Lighting
Ryan Thompson, DAN Symons – VFX Artists
Harvey Walton – Sound Recordist
Mark Mountford – DIT
Roy Franklin, Paul Barrett – Electricians
Sharon Barrett, Caroline Franklin – Hospitality
Catherine Harvey, Lucy Lee – Runners
Emilia Barrett – BTS Stills

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