This story holds significant prominence to myself, our writer and the rest of the crew as we have all grown up in a world influenced by social media. I often find myself using my phone to procrastinate and distract myself which, although harmless at first, leads to me being distracted from whatever task I was initially doing, be it study, work or even sleep. This is a problem that many young people are faced with because for so long we have been exposed to lightning fast media in the forms of TikToks, Vines and other short form media.

This allows the film and its themes to resonate with the young adult demographic it’s aimed at and serve as a cautionary tale for becoming so immersed within our own devices. We decided to use the 4:3 aspect ratio to make the audience feel trapped within the frame and capture the sense of being caged by our devices. The sound design also went a long way to explore how immersed we become in our own devices and how this can distract us from reality. These is a direct contrast between the extremely oversaturated parts of the film with TikToks being overlapped with each other compared to the deafening silence when the protagonist no longer has his phone. This further helps emphasise the film’s themes.