Jesse Collins

As an independent film making group, we want to create an immersive world that strikes a balance between an electric fast pace and great visuals but with imaginative ways to achieve a sci-fi world on a tight budget that means we must shoulder a lot of the work to bring this film to life, but seriously we are aiming to do science fiction justice and that's where the money will be spent. There will be robots, drones, and with visual effects and production design inspired by anime like Ghost In The Shell, and futuristic weapons that really do blow stuff up (think MIB) combined with a complex storyline told between the film and an interactive game designed by the film-makers to flesh out the back story, I believe Cognition will do well at local and overseas film festivals.

8k Budget:
$3500 - Crew of 6 for '8 shooting days'.
$1800 - Custom made robot suit production design.
$300 - Catering and travel costs.
$900 - DVD production (sending your DVD), festival entries and the Pozible fee.
$1000 - Equipment.
$500 - Post production and the game.

The greatest challenge of any science fiction film must be creating believability, but with Cognition for me it will be achieving everything I want for this film all together. We plan to visualise some tricky science fiction technologies around our characters and the game will be designed parallel as well, from stills taken on set where you can digitally walk through locations. We will run competitions to raise extra, and actually by the film being science fiction, will might have heaps of cool props and stuff to give away. The support we've received in Perth already has been fantastic and although the film is centred on recreating the city I think the film is very global in scope as a sci-fi. Secondly a great challenge is writing a story showing a human struggle that is identifiable around the world - fear of failure.