We are visual effects students from Bournemouth and the brief was to have a short scene with soldiers battling a robot in a near-future war-torn urban environment.

The schedule has been pretty hectic, but we have gotten the project greenlit and at the moment we are producing proof-of-concepts and concept-art like madmen.

Our question is if you would still be interested in coming down for a day? Would really mean a lot!

To be immediately very precise: We would love to have 4 marines. Since you guys look awesome, the Alien colonial marine uniform would be absolutely amazing. Since this piece is about generic futuristic marines, if you think you could have some additional gear to mash things up, please feel free to do so. The heavy steadycam gunners are unfortunately too recognizable. I have also seen the Aliens fanfilm you are working on, in it are shots of men dressed in black uniforms, they also have different weapons, I don't know who they belong to, but they looked very nice, are these a possibility?

I know I'm asking for a lot, and even worse is the schedule. Shooting, since it is not an entire story but only a few shots, will be done in one day. This has to be Sunday 29th of January in Bournemouth.

This is all very short notice, but the entire project has an insane deadline, we could show you the completed piece six weeks from now, so in a sense it's a short effort with immediate payback.

We would appreciate it tremendously if you would still be interested.

I could do something futurey, with a mishmash of SA BDUs, flak vest and a few bits.

If it's definitely the Sunday I might be able to make it depending on actual times and stuff. I'd also need to borrow a PR or something as I won't be able to finish mine in time.

i've got a really amazing, screen accurate, top quality (pffffftt...) flamer you can use Vicky

Thanks a million for the quick reply. Yes it is indeed the last Sunday of the month (the 31st), Friday is our equipment day, my apologies for the slip-up.
Arrival on location at 9h30, start at 10h00. Dressing space will be provided. Some sandwiches as well.
End will be at 17h00. The shoot will be outside on a parking lot against a blue/green screen.
The exercise will be to match you guys up in a virtual photo-real environment, so if we get your quality of foreground that's half covered
I'll personally buy you guys all a beer and burger afterwards, I really appreciate this!

First half of sequence: moving as a military covert unit.
Second: get close-ups from team leader (to be determined on location who has the best on-screen face
Third: a firing sequence.

It'll be a very technical shoot, so lots of position measurements, light reference and the works. So you wont get dirty or have any fear of costume damage (additional costumes may be brought along).

Again: much appreciated.

If you can get me the full names of the people coming over by Sunday (24th) I'll log them (private university property).

Location:
The Media School
Bournemouth University
Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow
Poole, Dorset
BH12 5BB, UK

Second: get close-ups from team leader (to be determined on location who has the best on-screen face

The shoot will be outside on a parking lot against a blue/green screen.