Behind the story

Its quite a dark tale of human deprivation and insanity, I'm exploring the mindset of a character who seemingly has lost his mind. I wanted to really lead the audience on with this film in many ways, i wanted them to think that the character was a low confidence run of the mill office nerd, which he is but i used this to cloak is psychotic tendencies.

The use of POV within the film.
I purposefully have only used the POV shots for when James is looking at the female characters, this creates a subconscious feel of voyeur within the film, James being the Voyeur watching the woman from a far but not interacting with them. This heightens the feel of James being a loner afraid to talk to the woman he desires. Its not just the Woman he works with who is shot through POV, all female characters in the film are, from the girls in the shop to the one tied up in his closet.

Purpose behind each location.
The use of his office is to show the monotony and boredom of his life, the way we will shoot the office and his cubicle will give off a distinct feeling of lifelessness. Its also the first place we see him so i want the audience to begin to get an idea about this man and by using the office we see a very bleak and boring side of the character.

The purpose of having the shop in the film is to show some of the outside world and what they are doing on a Friday, to stress the boring and empty state of James life. We see a few groups of people out and about having fun and getting drunk for a Friday night out, while he is stuck deciding what cereal to buy. Its really just to build on his character more and show how he is not part of main stream society and a social outcast.

His flat is were we learn the most about the character, firstly we see the extent of his grim an gray life as we see his poorly light empty and colourles home, we watch him eating his bog standard micro wave meal, all this is building the character. Then more is revealed about his feelings to the woman at his work through the radio show he is listening to, and eventually we learn he has an obsession with her. This is the beginning of things to come as we slowly learn that the character has become mentally deranged and finally discover his horrifying secret.


I have realized that the film is a little on the long side, and i will be re editing it before i finish working on it, possibly cutting down or out the grocery store scene, or removing some of the office shots as well as his meal in the flat. However it will be hard as i think it all adds to the story nicely.