Episode 1 CINEMANIACS

Hello, everyone! I'm Oli White and I love movies,

which is lucky because this show is all about the movies.

And if you love movies too then you're in exactly the right place

because this is...

Cinemaniacs!

Team, take it away.

Action! CLAPPERBOARD CLAPS

# Want to ride your bike across the face of the moon?

# Levitate your house with a bunch of balloons?

# Feel zero gravitation?

# A robot transformation?

# You're a Cinemaniac!

# Can you tell a lie that is the length of your nose?

# Or defrost a heart you accidentally froze?

# Want a bottomless case?

# Or a squid for a face?

# You're a Cinemaniac!

# Do you long to hear the roar of an extinct dinosaur?

# To explore the flora in your very own Pandora

# Feel the urge to sing on a quest for the ring

# To escape from a clone or to be home alone?

# Mwa-ha-ha-ha!

# Then roll out the red carpet And turn down the lights

# Grab yourself a seat and hold on tight

# We're mad about movies We're crazy for film

# We're Cinemania, Cinemania,

# Cinemaniacs! #

And on today's blockbusting show, all of this...

There's a surprise in store for two Harry Potter fans

when a celebrity turns up to babysit.

Oh, my gosh.

It was surreal.

Discover how animation really works as we go behind the scenes

with ParaNorman.

He doesn't just have one face, he has thousands of faces.

And find out why Michael Sheen of Tron

and Alice In Wonderland fame is monkeying about.

Ooh-ooh-ah-ah-ah!

What do you think about that, Mr Efron?

Awesome.

Definitely awesome.

It's kind of crazy and...awesome.

100% crazy and awesome.

Now if you were making a movie, would you be ready for your DIY

blockbuster surprise?

Well, would you?

This is part one.

Action!

We're giving groups of film-makers the chance to make a short film...

Ruff!

..armed with just a camera, a script and some home-made props.

But little do they know they're in for a big surprise.

You didn't know I was coming?

Pshh!

When we give them something spectacular

to turn their home movie into a DIY Blockbuster.

On the shot list, the first one is the wide shot...

Libby, Harley, Connie, Maddie,

Gus and Eva are making a thriller.

There's a grandad and he lives with his granddaughter.

I'm going away for a while.

He tells her that he's going to the Amazon

because he wants to be a spy again.

Here is where I'm going.

The team think they are going to be playing

all of the parts in their film themselves but none of them

look exactly convincing as an elderly grandparent.

We still need to figure out who is Grandad.

What they don't know is that they're in for a DIY Blockbuster surprise.

We've arranged for a world-famous actor to star in their film

who will be perfect

for the part of Grandad.

Quiet please, action!

There's some other shopping you need to do.

With no idea of what's about to happen,

the team are well into filming with Harley taking

the role of Grandad, when suddenly the doorbell rings.

Hello, Ian McKellen. Hello.

Hello!

Yes, their DIY Blockbuster surprise really is Ian McKellen,

star of The Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit, and the X-Men films.

As soon as he came through the door I was just like...

-Hello.

-Hello!

There's Gandalf, and I was like, "Gasp! It's Gandalf."

It was just so amazing.

Me and Harley looked at each other we were like, "Yes!"

-Angus, nice to meet you. I like your hat.

-Thanks.

Properly, properly wowed up.

-You didn't know I was coming?

-No.

-No!

It was a bit nervous coming in, as you can imagine.

-Is this is where I live? ALL:

-Yeah.

-I'm your granddaughter.

-Thank you.

Ian's keen to get straight into character.

Now do you suppose it was your mother or your father

who was my child?

I asked Lucy...

HE LAUGHS

..was she the daughter of my son

or of my daughter, and she wasn't...

She hadn't thought about that.

-It doesn't really matter.

-Father.

-Well, it matters to me.

Father.

So I had a son and he was your father.

-Lovely.

-OK.

With a better understanding of Grandad's character, filming begins.

Lucy, there's something I need to tell you.

I'm going to go away for a while.

Ian's performance was, like, perfect.

It was really good. It was amazing.

But...but why, Grandad?

Because I'm old and I need something to do.

I was just looking at the thing and just going, "Yes."

I'll miss you, Grandad.

He acted like he was actually her grandad.

In fact, Ian's acting is so convincing, it's causing confusion.

Don't move! Tell us where the USB stick is.

I thought that he was actually really scared.

-Where have you hidden it?!

-I've no idea what you're talking about.

And I didn't mean to scare him or anything.

He really convinced me that it was real.

Lucy, don't forget the shopping list.

Ian may be a world-class actor but he still needs direction

and the team have forgotten to tell him

what he's meant to be doing in this scene.

-That was a shambles.

-Yeah.

You've got to...got to tell the actors what to do.

Maddie and I didn't know that we were in the shot.

We had to tell him, like, what to do, where to be.

So where am I standing roughly?

Just stand there and just go stuff everything in.

If I had any questions, they listened and gave me a clear answer,

so I felt they adopted me as part of the team and I relaxed.

Still to come on DIY Blockbuster part two -

could there be another movie star at the door?

And we think, "Oh, it might be another really famous person."

The team get a lesson in the finer points of film-making.

Did I have my glasses on or off? At what point did I remove them?

And disaster strikes in the Amazon.

The battery ran out!

..proud of you. What?

Ian McKellen - I'm thinking Magneto, I'm thinking superpowers,

I'm thinking teleportation!

Whoa, that was awesome.

If you guys could have one superpower, what would it be?

I think I'm going to have to go with Batman.

-My favourite superhero...

-Catwoman!

-..is Catwoman!

Invisibility.

Rrrar!

I think I'd like to have telekinesis which is

when you move things with your brain.

It would be amazing to be able to be invisible in any room.

I would love to shape-shift. I think that would be awesome.

Superman because he can go from a geek, which I think

I am a little bit of a geek, to being a hunk who can fly.

One superpower? Can I be like Superman and have all of them?

Who will survive the Rock Hard Quiz?

Max, specialist subject - Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.

Who do Harry and Ron accidentally lock in the bathroom with the Troll?

Hermione.

What flavour of Bertie Botts jelly bean does Dumbledore end up with?

Ear wax.

What does Voldemort drink in the Forbidden Forest to sustain himself?

Dog's blood.

-BUZZER

-Correct answer - Unicorn's blood.

Aaah!

Spencer, specialist subject - Thor: The Dark World.

In the final showdown between Thor and Malekith,

what London Underground station does Thor find himself at?

Charing Cross.

What does the collector remark when Volstagg and Sif

leave at the end of the film?

One down, five to go.

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what number instalment

is Thor: The Dark World?

Nine.

-BUZZER

-Correct answer - eight.

Aaah!

Nikhita, specialist subject - Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi.

Who pretends to capture Chewbacca?

Um... Princess Leia.

Name the creatures that look like teddy bears?

Ewoks.

What is the name of the moon that the Death Star orbits?

Endor.

Who kills Jabba the Hut?

Um... Princess Leia.

What is Princess Leia holding whilst pretending to be a bounty hunter?

Chewbacca.

BUZZER

Correct answer - a thermal detonator.

Aaah!

And the winner is...

-Nikhita.

-Yes!

Phew, those Rock Hard quizzes are really...

-THUDDING VOICE:

-rock hard!

Now, what would you do if your favourite movie heroine

turned up at your door step? Would you scream?

Would you SHOUT? Would you shake it all about?

Well, we're about to find out what happened

when one lucky Cinemaniac had a visit from a very special someone.

This is Isabelle and her little sister Scarlett.

Their mum's getting ready to go out for the night and they're waiting

for the baby-sitter to turn up.

All sounds pretty, well, ordinary right?

Wrong!

Because tonight's baby-sitter is anything but ordinary.

I think I'm one of the biggest Harry Potter fans in the world.

My absolute favourite character in Harry Potter has got to be

Ginny Weasley, played by Bonnie Wright,

cos she's got red hair like me.

Any idea who it is yet?

Oh, I love a good surprise.

Hello! Hi, I'm Bonnie.

Yep, it really is Bonnie Wright.

When I opened the front door it was just amazing.

For one moment, I just didn't think it was all true.

Oh, my Gosh!

It just suddenly hit me.

-Nice to meet you. Can I come in?

-Yes.

-Yes.

Can you show me around?

Hi, nice to meet you, Bonnie.

And you as well. Hi, it's a bit of a surprise for you.

Uh, yes!

I was like, "What?!"

It was surreal, really, having Bonnie Wright in my house.

It was amazing.

Right, I'm going to go now,

-if there's any problems please give me a call.

-Right, yeah.

-It'll be good.

-All right, bye-bye, girls. Be good, love you.

Yeah, yeah, Mum, bye-bye!

See you soon.

With Mum out of the picture, the girls waste no time getting cosy

with Bonnie to watch the Harry Potter films, of course.

I'm thinking good time to get some insider info, girls.

Does it actually feel weird to watch yourself play these things

and so like see you growing taller and things?

Yeah, it is very weird. I'll tell you a fun fact about this scene -

I was exactly the age of nine and 3/4 on platform nine and 3/4.

That's so cool.

How quickly the venom of the Basilisk penetrates the body.

'Oh, I love this scene.'

It was so cold I had hot water bottles

and heaters hidden underneath my clothing.

I'm alive. THEY GIGGLE

Phew!

-These are always good fun, obviously, the Great Hall scenes.

-Yeah.

But all the food used to sit there for ages and ages,

so slowly all of the food would start to smell as we filmed.

Did you feel, like, any sadness when it was over?

Yeah, yeah. Obviously it had been such a long part

of all of our lives and all of us sort of grew up together,

so it was like finishing school

and worrying that you're not going to see your friends again.

What was really fun about this scene was, like, doing the full circle.

When I first started filming, I filmed on platform nine and 3/4

and my last scene that we filmed was back on platform nine and 3/4.

That's the end.

Oh...

So I think now it's probably bedtime.

What do you usually do before bed?

We usually we have big chocolate chip cookies.

LAUGHING: Oh, really?!

And hot milk.

Nice try, Isabelle, but bedtime it is.

Do you mind reading us a story before we go to bed?

I wonder what story we should read.

Ah, I know what you're up to. Stringing it all out, clever.

"Life at the Burrow was as different as possible

"from life at Privet Drive. The Dursleys..."

It's not every day you have a Harry Potter star

actually reading Harry Potter to you.

It's just amazing that she was in my house.

I'll, like, treasure the place where she sat on my sofa.

Now I want to sit there all the time.

I'm like, "This is where Bonnie Wright sat."

"Harry heard from Hogwarts one..."

And it looks like the story is doing the trick.

Night, girls, sleep tight.

It was one of the best experiences I'll probably ever have

and I'll definitely cherish the memories forever.

Cool.

Hard work writing all those Harry Potter books.

Hard work writing a movie too, especially a good one.

We decided to put two of our favourite writers

to the Writer Roulette test.

This is Laurence Rickard and this is Ben Willbond.

They're the writers behind the Shakespeare movie Bill.

You been before?

No, first time.

Oh, it's nice. Don't steal anything.

We're challenging Laurence and Ben to come up with a top movie plot

based on four completely random story ingredients.

It's time for...

And go.

Writer Roulette. OK, we're on a beach.

It's a very, very rocky beach and, uh...

BUZZER

Hiding underneath one of the rocks on the beach is a spider. It's been

contaminated in a nuclear accident and it is growing at an incredible

rate so it's now already the size of a man.

It's tremendously hungry but it can't find any bugs to eat

-so it's had to resort to...

-BUZZER

Eating pineapples. And the only thing that will stop it

growing much bigger and threatening the city that it lives next to

is feeding it pineapples, but there's a pineapple shortage.

BUZZER

So they have to invent a hydroponic pineapple-growing

solution which is powered by the greatest source of electricity

-known to man.

-Which is...

BOTH: Lightning. Of course.

Nice one, guys.

Still to come on Cinemaniacs...

We head behind the scenes with ParaNorman for some insider secrets.

Everyone in the real world thinks I'm a freak.

We put our very own super actor Michael Sheen

through his paces as he tries to be the best ape in town.

Ooh-ooh-ah-ah!

And want to know how to walk up walls? Who doesn't!

There we have our superhero.

But first, it's part two of DIY Blockbuster.

Action.

Lucy, there's something I need to tell you.

Six movie-makers have been given world-famous actor

Ian McKellen to star in their movie.

It's Gandalf and I was like, "Gasp!"

And his acting ability has blown them away.

He really convinced me that it was real.

Now look, I've got my map and the six coordinates.

The team are filming the same scene several times from different

angles so it can be edited together later, but this is causing problems.

I've got an awkward question - I had my glasses on, didn't I?

And I think at some point I took them off and put them in my pocket.

-Yeah.

-And I don't know when that was.

-Continuity.

-Continuity.

We had to look at the camera to see if his glasses were on or off.

Did I have my glasses on or off? At what point did I remove them?

-Oh, you take them off.

-Yeah!

I think it was exactly the same when the SWAT team comes in.

Is one of you doing continuity?

I think we should have had someone a job

so they were, like, looking at and observing every scene properly.

-Were those black things there before?

-Yes.

That was the lesson that they learned,

that continuity is very, very important,

otherwise it's difficult to cut the thing together afterwards.

Please don't go.

No, no. I have to go, Lucy, you see?

After another McKellen masterpiece, the team are making good progress.

Grandad, why are you being so weird?

-DOORBELL RINGS

-When the doorbell causes some excitement.

And we think, "Oh, it might be another really famous person."

Is one not enough?

-Hello.

-Hello.

It's a microwave.

Ah, yes, that famous actor - Mike Ro-wave.

He was just like, "Uh, I've just got a microwave."

We thought you were Bilbo Bobbins.

It's Baggins, not Bobbins.

Maddie went, "Oh, it's Bilbo Boggins!"

And everyone just started laughing.

THEY LAUGH

Despite the distraction,

Ian's impressed with the speed the team are working at.

Shall I tell you what, I have never worked

so fast in my life, it's brilliant.

I always want you directing my films.

In fact, they're already onto their final scene.

What you need to do is film Maddie and then go onto them.

Oh, I'm getting cold.

And they are using the wet weather to their advantage.

It's was a rainforest so it was good that it was rainy cos it

kind of got that little effect of... Made it a little bit more realistic.

We did get really wet though.

But is it a good idea to keep your star waiting around in the rain?

Well, I was a bit cold and I was a bit damp but then so were they

and they weren't complaining so I didn't think I should.

Action!

Just moments away from finishing their movie, there's a hitch.

I escaped.

Oh, the battery ran out!

Battery.

But nothing a spare battery can't fix.

There's someone here to see you.

I escaped. Oh!

-Yeah!

-Well done.

They finally manage to get the last shot, so that's a wrap.

It was such a good day. I don't think I'm ever going to forget it.

-ALL:

-Thank you.

Thank you all.

I just can't believe that he would take the time to work with us.

He's just an amazing man.

Thank you very much and I'll see you at the premier.

-ALL:

-Yeah.

-Thank you. Bye.

So what was the best bit of this magical day?

We met Ian and he...he was in our film!

You can check out the teams finished movie on the CBBC website.

So this is where I give you guys three top tips for you

to make your own videos.

Tip one - get yourself a phone or a camera.

This might be quite an obvious one, but believe me,

I've done it so many times.

I've pressed stop when I've actually meant to press start.

Tip number two - you need to make sure you have a memory card

and that there's no embarrassing selfies on.

Oh, no, that's Photoshopped, I swear.

There are so many different memory cards out there -

there's SD cards, there's CF cards, LOL, WBU...

Actually, hold on a minute, no, they're not all memory cards.

Tip number three - you're going to need to get yourself

some juice and charge up the camera. Ah...

And that's it for today's top tips.

Now this.

Let's head behind the scenes with ParaNorman.

-Peace, man.

-Totally.

As you were, soldier.

Sorry, yes, sir.

My name's Sam Fell, I'm an animation director.

Everyone in the real world thinks I'm a freak, and you know what?

Maybe they're right.

I'll tell you a little secret about Norman.

He doesn't just have one face, he has thousands of faces.

Thousands of faces that give him millions of expressions.

And how that works is...

we can take his face off and then what we can do

is put on other faces.

So this face was for when he was cleaning his teeth.

Ahhh.

The thing that gave us the most incredible

range of expressions is that we split his faces in half.

So we were able to change his mouth...

..separately from his eyebrows.

And then, we had an incredible little team of people painting out

that line frame by frame so it looked like one face again.

Amazing. Apparently, Norman had over 8,000 faces

and was one of the first animated models to be

printed on a 3-D printer. How cool is that?

Now, have you ever wanted to do a bit of wall walking?

You have? Then it's time to meet...

Mike Tucker, special effects expert extraordinaire, here to show you how

to create special effects Hollywood style in the Secrets Of Movie-making.

Today we're going to show you how to walk up walls.

Well, how to make it look like you're doing it, obviously.

So grab a couple of friends and let's get started.

This is to create an illusion of you walking up the side of a wall.

This effect was used in the original Batman.

Holy smoke!

How do you think the easiest way of doing that is?

Green screen.

No, we're not going to use green screen. There's no fun in that.

What we're going to is we're going to pretend that the floor is

actually the wall so everything gets tilted on its side.

And you're going to need some big bits of cardboard,

blue paint, tape, some white paper and a skipping rope.

Step one - you need to make your background by taping

all your big bits of cardboard together to make one big piece,

and then painting it blue to look like the sky.

If you're feeling creative, you can make some clouds to go on it too

using your white paper, cut out to look like clouds, obviously.

Step two - get your camera ready by turning it sideways.

you might want to use a tripod for this.

And if the camera is on its side and your acting is up to it,

then it should look like you're hauling yourself up the wall,

whereas in fact you're just walking along on floor level.

Step three - put on a superhero costume

or get someone else to put it on so you can all have a good laugh.

Ha-ha-ha!

There we have our superhero.

'Holy smoke!'

Step four - get your superhero to hold one end of the skipping rope

and pull it tight.

And for a finishing touch, try tying a bit of cotton to the cape

so when you pull on it, it looks like it's blowing in the wind.

And that, my friends, is how you walk the walk.

Pretty cool, eh? Someone else who knows a thing or two

about walking up walls is Spider-Man, but is that the best

thing about being Spider-Man or is it having your very own web shooter?

Let's ask someone who knows. Mr Andrew Garfield, take it away.

Obviously the swinging and getting in the suit,

and getting to throw yourself around New York City is amazing,

but what really I think satisfies that deeper part of you

and the deeper part of Peter Parker is that you're serving

something greater and you're protecting people from bad forces.

That's what superheroes do, they protect us from bad forces,

especially if they have a web shooter.

It's now time to meet our very own Cinemaniac superhero.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's...

The star of Alice In Wonderland,

Tron and Twilight,

he is Michael Sheen, super actor!

My challenge for today is just to monkey about. Yep, that's right.

I simply have to dress up in this monkey outfit

and try to convince this lot

that I am the best monkey actor.

Except I'm up against Aidan, a professional primate performer.

He's one of the best in the business

and he'll be going head-to-head with me in...

'But first I have to get covered in sticky stuff.'

I am getting prepared for what's called a skull cap.

I wear that inside the ape suit

so that my head's not rattling around inside.

'You might think this looks weird

'but wait till you see what else I'm wearing under my monkey suit.

'Do my muscles look big in this?'

I knew there was something I forgot to do - I forgot to shave my legs.

-As you do the step, try to lead with the elbow.

-Yeah.

'There's just time for Aiden to give me

'a quick masterclass in monkey movement.'

What makes for a good ape actor?

The ability to put up with not being able to see very well,

not being able to breathe very well,

and being able to put up with quite high levels of heat.

So how's it looking?

'He's just trying to put me off.

'Whoa, steady with the eyeliner. Monkey contacts in.'

Push now, push it in.

'I'm starting to wonder if there's a bit more to this challenge

'than just putting on a fancy dress costume

'and jumping around in the garden, but I can't let Aidan know that.'

I'm sure he'll be very good because he's an absolutely first-class actor

but at the same time, I think it will be quite hard.

The skin texture feels really amazing.

'Right, heads on, let's get into character.'

I remember when I first performed Shakespeare, I was Henry V.

'OK, maybe not.

'Think bananas, think jungle, think itchy armpits.'

It's time for the challenge!

Here I come. I'm starting casual, like it's quite normal for me

to be monkeying about in an English country garden.

All I need to do is convince five out of the eight judges

I'm the best ape.

Whoa there! Oh, he's just showing off.

Time to show them what I can do.

Check this out, guys -

walking,

turning a corner...

and sitting down!

Exhausting, but I think they like it.

Oi, get off!

Yeah, yeah, never mind the camera, Aidan.

Oh, it's getting quite hot in here.

Hopefully I've done enough to impress the judges though.

You couldn't tell that there were people underneath them.

I found it interesting but quite scary at the same time.

I thought they looked really realistic and quite scary.

It's time for the verdict!

So who's voting for me, Michael Sheen, super actor,

AKA the orang-utan?

What, one banana? I mean, one vote.

Which means...

seven votes for Aidan as the most convincing primate!

I choose the gorilla cos he's quite boisterous

and I think that's what they're like in the wild.

He, like, interacted with the judges,

like, running towards them and stuff.

I chose the orang-utan cos it was more relaxed

whereas the gorilla was a bit too active.

Today's challenge started with me monkeying around

but it ended up with my orang-utan playing second banana

to Aidan's gorilla, which means that today,

Michael Sheen, super actor, has failed.

Better luck next time, Michael.

Talking of next times, next time on Cinemaniacs...

More DIY film-makers get a blockbuster surprise,

and this time it's a monstrous one.

-Aaah!

-Roar!

Two Cinemaniacs get an exclusive interview

with How To Train Your Dragon creator Cressida Cowell.

Duhbrain is in the book but he's not in the film,

why did you change that?

SHE LAUGHS

And can Michael Sheen, super actor, fool his mum

and dad with prosthetics?

-Thank you very much.

-OK.

-Right.

So it's nearly time to "let it go," but before we go,

if Frozen is one of your favourite films, then see if you can spot

all the surprise guests leading up to the wedding scene.

Can you see Rapunzel and Flynn Rider from Tangled?

There they go.

I'm Oli White, and you've been watching...

Cinemaniacs!

Superhero or super nerd?

-Superhero.

-Superhero.

BOTH: Supernerd.

Superhero.

Superhero.

Supernerd.

Superhero.

Superhero.

Superhero.

Superhero who is a supernerd.

Well, that's obvious - supernerd, superhero.