Bryony Makes a Zombie Movie

Bryony Makes A Zombie Movie tells the story of YouTube sensation Bryony Matthewman's attempts to pull together a user-generated zombie movie.

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 BBC Three at 11.45pm on Sunday 16 November.

Bryony Matthewman, aka Paperlilies, is a YouTube superstar with over 15 million hits and a legion of dedicated fans.

But they don't just watch, they join in. She became the most viewed Londoner on YouTube in 2007.

Then she decided to make a film – but being an internet phenomenon, she decided to eschew the traditional method and do it entirely online.

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.

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.

With contributors from Australia, Canada, Brazil, Germany, USA, the UK and France, the clock to red carpet day was soon ticking...

Bryony put the above 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...

More than 300,000 people viewed the video. Bryony also set up a forum, where people could discuss ideas and volunteer their services.
Hat Trick and BBC 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 BBC Three site bbc.co.uk/zombies.

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.

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 BBC Three screens a 30-minute TV programme telling the full story of Bryony's journey from initial video post to red carpet premiere.

Source: BBC

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