MACHINE THAT GOES 'PING' (FROM "THE CURABLE") - FRONT ELEVATION
The Machine That Goes 'Ping!' prop that I built for Simon Imberger's low budget genre feature film "The Curable".
It's essentially a "Palin-O-Scope", so named after Michael Palin, who was in the original Machine That Goes 'PIng!' comedy medical sketch in "Monty Python's Flying Circus". No hi-tech operating theatre can possibly be considered state-of-the-art without a MTGP! (Also rather useful as a submarine sonar...)
What does it do? Well, it's hooked up to a patient/victim and...goes 'ping!'
It's made out of Medium Density Fibreboard offcuts leftover from my 2007 Victorian College Of The Arts Klingon Spacecraft project. The gadget features in many scenes in the film because it's located on one of Simon's primary sets at Melbourne University's Parkville Campus.
It's dressed with lots of second hand dials and buttons and other mathoms from my 'useful' boxes, and the square aluminium panel has been left blank so SImon can punch in animated graphics in post production.
For lighting FX I've included my old, faithful xenon flash strobe, the same one that I used in my Red Kelly manga battlesuit and also in the Zombie zapping CD firing gun in Jason Heller's "Eat Your Heart Out" short film.
"The Curable" is largely set in a dodgy experimental laboratory complex so Simon's brief to me was to make the MTGP! quite manky looking, maybe even cannibalised from other equipment.
Because I'd fairly well mapped out what I was going to do beforehand it only took about four hours to tool up the basic structure and paint it, and then another couple of hours to distress, weather and add gunk to it.
I had a lot of fun adding little touches like the rubberband around one of the controls, the '108' number (a significant number from the T.V series "Lost"), scratches, dried blood and so on....
MACHINE THAT GOES 'PING' (FROM "THE CURABLE") - FRONT ELEVATION
The Machine That Goes 'Ping!' prop that I built for Simon Imberger's low budget genre feature film "The Curable".
It's essentially a "Palin-O-Scope", so named after Michael Palin, who was in the original Machine That Goes 'PIng!' comedy medical sketch in "Monty Python's Flying Circus". No hi-tech operating theatre can possibly be considered state-of-the-art without a MTGP! (Also rather useful as a submarine sonar...)
What does it do? Well, it's hooked up to a patient/victim and...goes 'ping!'
It's made out of Medium Density Fibreboard offcuts leftover from my 2007 Victorian College Of The Arts Klingon Spacecraft project. The gadget features in many scenes in the film because it's located on one of Simon's primary sets at Melbourne University's Parkville Campus.
It's dressed with lots of second hand dials and buttons and other mathoms from my 'useful' boxes, and the square aluminium panel has been left blank so SImon can punch in animated graphics in post production.
For lighting FX I've included my old, faithful xenon flash strobe, the same one that I used in my Red Kelly manga battlesuit and also in the Zombie zapping CD firing gun in Jason Heller's "Eat Your Heart Out" short film.
"The Curable" is largely set in a dodgy experimental laboratory complex so Simon's brief to me was to make the MTGP! quite manky looking, maybe even cannibalised from other equipment.
Because I'd fairly well mapped out what I was going to do beforehand it only took about four hours to tool up the basic structure and paint it, and then another couple of hours to distress, weather and add gunk to it.
I had a lot of fun adding little touches like the rubberband around one of the controls, the '108' number (a significant number from the T.V series "Lost"), scratches, dried blood and so on....