Bryony Makes A Zombie Movie tells the story of YouTube sensation Bryony Matthewman's attempts to pull together a user-generated zombie movie.
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This exciting new cross-platform event from Hat Trick Productions, which has attracted over half-a-million hits from around the world, forms the basis of the half-hour documentary, which screens on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Three at 11.45pm on Sunday 16 November.
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Bryony Matthewman, aka Paperlilies, is a YouTube superstar with over 15 million hits and a legion of dedicated fans.
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But they don't just watch, they join in. She became the most viewed Londoner on YouTube in 2007.
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Then she decided to make a film – but being an internet phenomenon, she decided to eschew the traditional method and do it entirely online.
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This means that her film is a wholly collaborative effort, using only people she has met on the web. So actors, screenwriters, editors, cameramen, make-up artists all come from her international online community.
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Her challenge? Not only did Bryony have to make the film a reality, she also had a deadline to meet, Halloween 2008, when she threw a premiere party at the Renoir Cinema in London's West End involving as many contributors as could make it, all dressed in their finest black tie clobber – with a few zombies thrown in for good measure.
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With contributors from Australia, Canada, Brazil, Germany, USA, the UK and France, the clock to red carpet day was soon ticking...
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Bryony put a video on YouTube in which she claimed to have been bitten by a stranger on the tube, and that this inspired her to make a zombie movie...
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More than 300,000 people viewed the video. Bryony also set up a , where people could discuss ideas and volunteer their services.
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The project attracted a variety of weird and wonderful contributors from across the globe, including a girl from Germany who made a video about how excited she was to be featured...
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Hat Trick and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Three have followed all aspects of Bryony's production with online documentary coverage consisting of two webisodes per week over a 17-week period on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Three site bbc.co.uk/zombies.
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Content includes coverage of shoot days, interviews with the luminaries of the undead world and make-up testing; Bryony also reports back on the weirdest, worst and most wicked suggestions, video responses and volunteers from all over the world.
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With this wealth of documentary footage on what was a big summer event in realities both virtual and actual, at the end of this week ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Three screens a 30-minute TV programme telling the full story of Bryony's journey from initial video post to red carpet premiere.
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Will she make her film on time?
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Danny Cohen, Controller, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Three, says: "Bryony is next-generation talent, discovered and developed on the internet.
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"As a multi-platform network, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Three will continue to look for these kinds of opportunities – via the web and beyond."
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Jimmy Mulville comments: "This collaboration with the amazing Bryony Matthewman is part of a commitment to making digital entertainment online an integral part of Hat Trick's future."
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Bryony Makes A Zombie Movie is a Hat Trick production for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Three.
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The Executive Producers for Hat Trick are Jonathan Davenport and Richard Wilson.
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It is produced by Adam King and commissioned by Martin Trickey, Multiplatform Commissioning Executive, Comedy and Entertainment, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Vision.
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