[Benjamin]

My mate Dodge got 'discovered' on Youtube by coincidence.

Two British soldiers who filmed themselves stuck in a lift and posted the clip on YouTube have become the unlikely stars of a television disaster movie filmed by a Bafta-winning director.

David “Dodge” Pentek, a Lance-Bombardier in the Royal Horse Artillery, and Andrew “Gibbo” Gibson, a Sergeant in the Queen’s Royal Hussars, documented their escape from an elevator, which jammed three stories up in a holiday complex in Hungary six years ago.

The clip, shot on Gibson’s small digital camera, was discovered on YouTube earlier this year by researchers from a television production company and has led to the pair being given parts in Blackout, a Channel 4 drama-documentary to be shown on Monday night about the effects of a cyber-attack on the national power grid.

The feature-length film, directed by Ben Chanan, combines “found footage” of real power-cut situations with pictures shot by actors using mobile phones.

Chanan told The Independent that he had decided to make greater use of the sequence after it made his son laugh when he was viewing clips. The film is Chanan’s first experience of “found footage directing”. He believes the genre has great potential for adding realism to storytelling.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...t-8803999.html

[Jake.]

That's really cool!

[Vanessa]

[Benjamin]

This is the clip:

Youtube video

[T*]

Id be ****ting myself if I got stuck in a lift they were laughing and I'm claustrophobic so I'd be running around screaming

[Drew.]

He went to school just down the road from me

[Ramsay]

Wasn't Blackout already on tv like a month ago? maybe this is a sequel

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Drew.

He went to school just down the road from me

You know Dodge too?

[Headie]

Blackout was on C4 like last month, I remember giving up on it after the first 5 minutes.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Karl

Wasn't Blackout already on tv like a month ago? maybe this is a sequel

This article is from September.

They may have already show in it, I've not caught up with TV and haven;t actually watched anything on C4 since Big Brother stopped airing on it.

[Drew.]

Originally Posted by Ben

You know Dodge too?

i don't know him but he went to school with a few of my friends by the looks of it

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Drew.

i don't know him but he went to school with a few of my friends by the looks of it

He went out with my friend and we worked together (me, him and my friend) in a pub in Old Town, Hastings. He is honestly one of the funniest people I know.

[Drew.]

Originally Posted by Ben

He went out with my friend and we worked together (me, him and my friend) in a pub in Old Town, Hastings. He is honestly one of the funniest people I have know.

I was in the Old Town only last week small small world..

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Drew.

I was in the Old Town only last week small small world..

That is where I grew up (from 13 - 20 years old). I lived in the Old Town.

I worked at the Hastings Arms and then in Ye Olde Pump House.

[MeMyselfAndI]

After watching that clip, I think the movie is gunna flop

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by MeMyselfAndI

After watching that clip, I think the movie is gunna flop

It's not a movie.

[Lee.]

Are you originally from Chatham Ben?

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Drew.

I was in the Old Town only last week small small world..

Oh weird, just looked on FB and a couple of your friends know my friends, hahaha.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Lee.

Are you originally from Chatham Ben?

London originally. Then Rainham (kent), Chatham, Hastings, Ballater/Aberdeen, Hastings, Totnes, Porto, Paignton, Torquay, Exeter, Melbourne, Bristol, Auckland back to Bristol.


My life story.

[Lee.]

Daves from Chatham too.. He always says he's going to take me on a tour if his childhood memories is Chatham and Hastings!

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Lee.

Daves from Chatham too.. He always says he's going to take me on a tour if his childhood memories is Chatham and Hastings!

You may want to bring wine, and lots of it.

Although tbf neither place is short of bars/pubs, especially Hastings.

[Drew.]

Originally Posted by Ben

That is where I grew up (from 13 - 20 years old). I lived in the Old Town.

I worked at the Hastings Arms and then in Ye Olde Pump House.

that's crazy we used to go to this place when i was a kid every couple of weeks for fish and chips and to just wonder around, its a really nice area



i only really go there now if i'm riding along the sea front though

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Drew.

that's crazy we used to go to this place when i was a kid every couple of weeks for fish and chips and to just wonder around, its a really nice area



i only really go there now if i'm riding along the sea front though

OMFG! The Mermaid!

Awww, I miss Hastings (then I remember how ****ing dull it can be, lol).

Although I will defo be pooping down into the old town for Xmas to see my friends at Pump House. But The Crypt closed down.

[Lee.]

Originally Posted by Ben

OMFG! The Mermaid!

Awww, I miss Hastings (then I remember how ****ing dull it can be, lol).

Although I will defo be pooping down into the old town for Xmas to see my friends at Pump House. But The Crypt closed down.

[Benjamin]

I miss seeing this sign.