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One person, three weeks, a lifeboat and a shark

The Rogue

J. Felipe Orozco’s 9:57 survival short: two boys adrift in a lifeboat after a devastating loss. The staging is deliberate filmmaking — a designed continuous move reveals the fin and places the threat behind the lead. Made solo in three weeks on Runway. Content note: includes child peril and a shark attack.

By J. Felipe Orozco @jforozcop

Watch the film

Read the BTS post

Orozco on script, blocking and camera moves

Official Runway page (opens on Runway); viewer note: child peril and a shark attack

Made With Models illustration of a small wooden lifeboat adrift on a vast dark ocean at dusk, one oar across the gunwale and a distant fin cutting the surface; this is not a frame from the film. — A look at the result

What it does

Watch a one-person production direct through camera language: geography, performance and escalation held for almost ten minutes.

Who it helps

People interested in AI film with real staging and performance discipline.

How it was made

Models: Runway · creator-reported
Tools: Storyboards and blocking · Focal length, lighting and camera moves designed before generation
Repeated performance and timing passes · Escalation from isolation to the shark reveal

Orozco made the film alone in about three weeks — script, character and world design, master references and storyboards came first.
The camera carries the story: a designed continuous move reveals the shark fin, pushes toward Peter and rotates to place the threat behind him.
Performance and timing went through repeated passes so the two boys read as the same people across wide, close and over-shoulder shots.

What the person did

Orozco wrote, designed and directed the film alone. The making-of is hosted by Runway, which also makes the tool — read the workflow claims with that in mind.

What we know

Creator-reported: The official Runway page with the complete film and making-of video, and Orozco’s first-person BTS post; the three-week one-person figure is creator-reported.

Access checked — 2026-09-29 · Opened the Runway page and the BTS post on 2026-09-29.

Can you use it?

The film and making-of live on Runway’s page; we link only and host no frames. Viewer note: includes child peril and a shark attack. The cover is an original Made With Models illustration, not a frame from the film.

About this project

Picked by Made With Models. Added 2026-09-29. Updated 2026-09-29.

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