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DropScare

The first episode of a 4-part MockuVlog follows the viewer searching and watching the internet sensation CAVI-Crazy Aussie Vlog Investigations; featuring BEN, CHAZ and LUCAS, as they investigative myths and legends. The latest series follows the CAVI Gang documenting their findings on the urban legend of the Drop Bear in Rural Australia. On their travels, strange events start to occur leaving the Vloggers curious to find out more for the view count, even if it kills them.

  • Kayley Atkinson
    Director
  • Kayley Atkinson
    Writer
  • Maia Matthews
    Writer
  • Maia Matthews
    Producer
  • Maximilian Drummond
    Key Cast
    "Ben Shaw "
  • Alexander Claude
    Key Cast
    "Chaz Ryan "
  • Justin Waddington
    Key Cast
    "Lucas Baker "
  • Kayley Atkinson
    Key Cast
    "Driver "
  • Daryl Sparkes
    Executive Supervisor
  • Jacob Moha
    Casting Director
  • Jamie Cullen
    Director of Photography
  • Louis Maxwell
    Assistant Director of Photography
  • Carla Petersen
    Clapper
  • Ryan Kitzelmann
    Boom Operator and Sound Mixer
  • Andrew Larsen
    Audio Operator
  • Xander Michalkow
    Gaffer
  • Maia Matthews
    Editors
  • Kayley Atkinson
    Editors
  • Alana Paterson
    Colourist
  • Dylan Maclachlan
    Titles and Credits
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Horror, Drama
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 5, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    500 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - University of Southern Queensland
  • Web Series Festival

    Semi-Finalist for Web Series Pilot
Director Biography - Kayley Atkinson

Kayley Atkinson is an Australian Filmmaker, who's recently finished her Bachelors Degree in Film, Television and Radio at USQ. She's based in Brisbane, Queensland making films featuring locations all around the state. Having a creative eye, passions lay with the vision of the film as she displays profound messages throughout her own style of cinema.

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Director Statement

DropScare started out as a student project both Co-Writer and Producer Maia Matthews and I wrote for one of our courses at University, it originally was going to be centred around found footage of 4 Vloggers out in the bush on the search for Drop Bears. However, after facing obstacles through production, Maia and I had to rewrite the whole script eight hours before our next shoot. That night we wrote what is now DropScare, the interactive web series, where the audience feels included in the experience. I proposed the camera to be what the audience would see, so each person felt they were there with the CAVI Gang.

DropScare became so much more than a mark for a University assignment, but a project I’m so immensely proud of and it’s because of the committed actors, the hard working crew, the organisation from the producer Maia and my direction this project wouldn’t have been as successful as it turned out to be. All the difficulties we faced on this production were for a reason, as it ended up pushing Maia and I to both work harder and revaluate the end product. Without these challenges and obstacles DropScare wouldn't be the masterpiece it’s now become.