I was 18 months through an MA in Scriptwriting course when I realised that the intensely personal
feature length script I was writing had through time drifted from my thoughts and feelings. I no longer felt the way the protagonist had, and I found myself in the unenviable position of having to force myself to write it. The passion I had in telling the story was now imbued with artifice, I was faking my own feelings.

18 months is a long time to spend on a project, and when you decide to start from scratch with a
completely new idea, 18 months is a long time to have spent without completing a single piece of
writing. So, more as a way to see if I could complete a project I set out to write a short-film. A 20 page short that would allow me to discover if I still could write as passionately as I used to.

It started with the smallest seed of an idea - a man sat alone waiting to be executed. This was all
I had to go on, a person who it seemed had conceited to defeat (much like I had with the 18
months of hell on that project), but the one thing we shared was the idea that in conceding to defeat we were actually starting over - it was a new beginning. I had never planned to write a Samurai story, but seeing as I had only ever envisaged this as a test of my will I allowed myself to write free of budgetary constrictions and create a world I wanted to create - for the first time I had written a short-film without thinking how I would be able to make it with a meagre budget. The thought never occurred to me that this idea would ever come to fruition - it was a script written purely for my imagination to watch.

Until...