The Thriller Moose is a 40-minute mockumentary following an “aspiring” influencer and his pal in quest of the elusive and probably extinct Fiordland Moose. Going into the rugged wilderness of South New Zealand, the 2 threat all of it in hopes of changing into web well-known.
Acrozora, the collective of William Preat (Filmmaker and Composer) and Knight Mitchell (Filmmaker), is a newly established platform for the 2’s collaborations whether or not that’s by way of movie or music. The Thriller Moose is the collective’s debut function movie launched on February fifth 2025, completely independently produced, directed, edited, and so on., the movie options an authentic soundtrack produced and composed by William Preat.
The concept for the movie was first conceived in the midst of 2023 once we stumbled upon conspiracy movies on-line of the Fiordland Moose. It wasn’t lengthy till we had booked flights from our hometowns in North Queensland all the way down to South New Zealand, our baggage filled with tenting gear and digital camera tools. We landed in Queenstown firstly of 2024 and have been undoubtedly travelling on a funds, sleeping in our tents at any time when attainable. Joke, the primary night time we landed we by accident threw out our RODE mic and checked the bins the subsequent day to search out it had been emptied…
Anyway, we have been in New Zealand for a bit lower than a month and have been filming on mountain climbing trails and hitchhiking to completely different locations filming the sweetness on a Sony A6600 and DJI Mini 3 Professional (tying the moose narrative into the expertise at any time when we may). The entire journey was surreal – from being invaded by mice; to filming in 90km/h winds on a glacier; to being so removed from civilisation and on the mercy of New Zealand’s insane nature and landscapes.
A behind-the-scenes reduce from William Preat right here:
After returning again to Australia, over the subsequent 12 months, quite a lot of time (and mission information) was invested into the making of the introduction sequence in After Results and Unreal Engine. The introduction is actually a visualisation of the brainwashing that quite a lot of vulnerable audiences face (particularly with AI) by way of the consumption of brief type content material. That was actually the message we wished to ship dwelling with the movie: a cautionary story on the results of overconsumption in modern social media.
Whereas engaged on this, William, over in Finland, had been happening ordinary hikes to attempt to get a shot of a moose within the wild (we didn’t discover one in New Zealand) even taking a visit as much as Lapland to strive greatening his possibilities. The top part of the movie was shot primarily in Lapland and Austria, and by some loopy luck it was on one among William’s final routine hikes that he occurred to run right into a household of moose, rapidly staging his character’s response.
It was solely a few days after William acquired again to North Queensland that Acrozora was fashioned, the collective placing collectively the movie over one week. It was seven lengthy days within the studio producing the movie; from scoring, to sound design, to enhancing and colouring and on the seventh day the movie was fully completed and uploaded to YouTube.
