Tasked with recording a beat exercise for my directing class, I embarked on shooting an eerie thriller with my iPhone across two nights in three hours.
In night 1 I outlined the chase path across the edge of Brookline, Boston, and Fenway Park. Though there is minimal dialogue in this short, I still wanted there to be a narrative progression with crests and troughs to the tension of the traveling pursuit.
On night 2 entering production, I placed a large emphasis on the camera's subjectivity. Framed in the protagonist's perspective, I strived to have the camera reflect the varying emotions of claustrophobia, morbid curiosity, frantic dismay, and fleeting moments of ease.
Edited on the same night, the finished product is a nerve-wracking short with eerie twists in the lens of an unhinged protagonist through a city landscape.