High School-made Dr Who

[Sam]

It's a very small chance that anyone saw us in a little live interview on Tyne Tees (ITV / channel 3) on Thursday night on the news, but with the group I was looking for books to adapt for, I'm making a Dr Who thingiemabob since we got a dalek for 3 days to play with. We've finished up the bits involving the dalek so now have to do the boring bits in between, edit it together and will be done and shown to raise money for Comic Relief in March.

I'll upload it to YouTube for you all to watch.

(If you did see the news, I'm the lad who explained the beginning, wooplah!)

 

[Dekstar]

Damn I would have seen it if we got any warning.
Upload it all to youtube!

 

[Sam]

We have pretty much just rough cuts of stuff at best right now. The sort of leader of the group (student teacher) started to edit the scene where the dalek kills someone, and it looks really good - got the negative effect and as she falls backwards she fades out quickly and vanishes.

Got some nice dramatic shots of the dalek in darkened corridors and stuff like that.

And I'm not sure but isn't Tyne Tees regional for the North-East?

 

[Dekstar]

We have pretty much just rough cuts of stuff at best right now. The sort of leader of the group (student teacher) started to edit the scene where the dalek kills someone, and it looks really good - got the negative effect and as she falls backwards she fades out quickly and vanishes.

Got some nice dramatic shots of the dalek in darkened corridors and stuff like that.

And I'm not sure but isn't Tyne Tees regional for the North-East?

Actually it prolly is.
All the more reason to upload to youtube.

 

[Sam]

I'll get it uploaded if it hasn't already been. I only saw it myself today. The interview isn't all that spectacular (and it's very short), but daleks are ****ing awesome

The guys who built and operate it got in touch with the guy who played Davros, and he sent us some signed photos.

We all also had a go in the dalek, and it's cool. The head (side-to-side movement), voice and eye movement (up and down)are remote controlled by someone off-camera, the movement of the dalek physically, moving the "arms" and rotating the middle section are done by whoever is in the dalek (the last bit the proper ones they use can't do, haha).

I seriously considered mowing down these little kids (teachers, etc brought in their kids to see it), who kept moving in front of me when I was in it whichever way I turned so I couldn't bloody move.

 

[Dekstar]

I thought you had to be really tiny to fit in a dalek. How much room is there in 'em?

 

[Sam]

They are quite short but you sit down inside it and move yourself with your feet, Flintstones style. I'm 6' and I was fine in it, although the top of my head was touching the bottom of the head section. They are also very wide (manages double doors but anything else is hopeless). It's painted as in the new new new new daleks (latest ones).

Black is solid stuff, red lines are different sections that get put together. The blue line is the bit where the bit you get inside stops, as it has all the circuitry and motors and whatnot. The mesh bit at the front you can see through, the back bits you can't.

Cost them ~?3000 to make, but they let us have it for free (we're paying for repairs that they had to do, but we offered not them).

 

[JFry]

I'm cornfused. You got to do a movie in some kind of r2d2 suit?

 

[Sam]

Doctor Who is the longest running Sci-Fi show.

Daleks are the trademark enemy.

 

[ktimekiller]

doctor who is a pretty decent show, would be better with more funding imo

 

[Sam]

The new stuff looks pretty pretty to me.

 

[ríomhaire]

Sorry to nit-pick but it's not Dr Who, it's Doctor Who.

 

[Sam]

I don't like long thread titles, but still needed it to be descriptive.

 

[Reginald]

I love Doctor Who. :E More than like... anything. :x

It's pretty sad actually. But I'm envious of the whole Dalek-ness.

 

[Sulkdodds]

You bastard!

I eagerly await the movie-postage.