I thought I'd share with you a snippet of behind the scenes of a set for my near-future short film, about a bio-technologist researching a cure for sickle cells, but inadvertently creates a monster. so I had to build for her a laboratory. It was a bit of a nightmare given the limited resources I work in. For a moment I considered shooting her on a green screen, but gave up on the idea almost immediately and focused on the old school ways of doing things. I'd built a fairly decent set for my last feature film, Her Broken Shadow, so I thought I'd use that experience to create this lab. I got everyday home appliances, microwaves, water dispensers, the like, that were not working of course, and I tore them up and used their bodies to create something that looks like something that would be in a laboratory. A biosafety cabinet. We bought a lot of real props, pipettes, tubes, PCR racks (we got those used from a real lab) but this was the hardest thing to pull off and I'm not yet sure if it's convincing. I might have to add a bit of something in post to make it more machine-like, but here it is. Enjoy the video!