The main vision I had for making The Call was a 000 representitive picking up the phone and acting all professional like. I wanted the male voice to be as ‘street hanger’ as possible, I believe the script that I wrote fit very well with the scene.
In the call the female voice was my sister and the male voice was my brother. It was very hard getting them to be serious and majority of the time they were laughing, after an hour or so of recording we got a good 2 minuites of voice recordings in. Never do business with family!
The inspiration for ‘The Call’ was drawn from a real life event that had occured. One time I was up in the city and walked passed an alley way only to see 50 or so men standing with weapons drawn ready to kill someone, I was with my brothers, cousins and a few friends and as soon as we turned the corner we ran for it.
After getting a good 5 minuites distance from the group we called 000 so the police could take care of them. The Call’s story is like an alternate reality thinking what if these guys were to have come after us.