Broke indie UK filmmakers need your steampunk!

Ant sez, "We are shooting a micro-budget 'elegant-sci-fi' feature in the UK this summer - we sold our house to make the film (a little nuts, we know...but you only live once). We have built various bits of steampunk for one of the sets. Time is running out though, and we would like more. We wondered if any of your dear readers might loan us some of their work/have ideas of where to source things (on a shoestring budget). Any help would be dearly appreciated. Thank you! Unicorns all around."

[Ed: these seem like good people, but I don't know them personally; loan your precious steampunk stuff to them at your own risk]

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Anonymous

Check out http://www.themarionetteunit.com these guys seem to be making a steampunk movie too. Maybe worth getting in touch?
celestialelf

Could you film any of the scenes in VR like Second Life and then green-screen/chroma key actors on/into it?
Theres lots of steampunk in SL and a maachinima/movie mix might be very interesting :)
- dculberson
  
  Second Life definitely doesn’t have the picture quality to make a convincing movie.
  - Sagodjur
    
    Agreed. Veto on the SL idea.
    
    The SL steampunk content might be inspirational for live action set design, but SL machninatography cannot be taken seriously.
    
    If you had the time and the inclination to use CGI effects, learn something like Maya.
jennybean42

Like the SL idea.
Or you could ask for dontations with Kickstarter, which loves to fund projects like this.

http://www.kickstarter.com/
(not affiliated, just a supporter.)