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A comedy about film fans, to be screened on BBC3 this autumn, required the black arts of Pepper's colourists to transform footage shot on tape into an homage to cinema classics
Recreating the look and style of key scenes from classic movies on the budget of a BBC3 sitcom was a tall order for a first-time TV director whose previous experience largely consists of commercials. But when Toby MacDonald read Mark Chappell's scripts for a 6x30- minute comedy drama which follows two cinema buffs who obsessively seek out film references that relate to their everyday lives, he saw a kindred spirit.
Starring My Family's Kris Marshall, My Life in Film pays tribute to celluloid hits such as Top Gun, The Shining, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Fellini's 8 1/2.
Macdonald explains: "In the Top Gun one, a character goes to a driving school where he falls in love with his instructor - but there's also this homoerotic rivalry going on between him and a fellow classmate.
"Each episode...