When Solihull film student Robert Brown started his university coursework, he had no idea he would land the use of a top film studio and a star-studded cast.
Robert, who was studying film and TV production at Leeds Metropolitan University, set to work on an animated film after being given a budget of £2,000 by his university.
After months of preparing the script, the 20-year-old found himself without a studio or any actors on the day before it was due to be recorded.
The cheeky student frantically phoned Pinewood Studios, in Slough, for help and was shocked when bosses agreed to let him use the space for a day for free.
The studios have played host to all 18 Bond movies, block-buster King Arthur and is currently home to Johnny Depp's latest film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Robert and four of his classmates also managed to persuade Jamie Murray, famed for playing Stacie in BBC's Hustle, Attachments actress Amanda Ryan and Rich Hikins, Ben in Casualty, to do the voice-overs.
Robert, a former pupil of Arthur Terry School, in Sutton Coldfield, said: "It was amazing. It was so last minute that
the day before we got the studio was probably one of the most stressful in my life.
"It was very exciting and I had to keep pinching myself as I was walking through Pine-wood Studios with these actors I had seen on the television the week before.
"It was bizarre because Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was being filmed next door and all of these amazing films have been made there."
The animated film, called £3.50 adv/£4 door, follows the story of two friends fighting over a dark mysterious stranger in a nightclub.
Robert has now finished his degree and is working on three new short films as well as studying part-time at the London Film School.
