Adaptation of a independent RPG-Maker video game.
Skylar's first live action short film, Katie's first film.
Skylar has only changed the ending of the video game's story, claiming it's much more depressing and dark.
Was originally going to be PG-13 (self-applied) to follow closer to the video game's content but Skylar decided to make the film rated R (self-applied) to coincide with the heavy language and allowed him to show more blood and violence on screen.
There are several more subtle hints in the film (other than the shirt changing consistently and hair length) after the night David died, this includes his eyes becoming slightly less reflective (going from reflecting nearly everything in the environment to only reflecting light sources. The colors and color tones after his death also never change from the cooler tones and slightly more muted colors, which prior to his death represented states of despair, sadness or loneliness as represented by the drinking and opening scenes vs. the first scenes involving him moving in which is more orange and warmer and much more colorful. Other more subtle hints include his gray laptop (the Sam KIA -
actor/writer also owns a red laptop that he could've utilized but the gray was probably more symbolic), the camera is never handheld (part of the opening including the sixth David video diary and scene where he talks to Paul and Cheryl) or on an unstable surface (scene where he's driving) after the night he dies (always on a stable surface of some sort) it also never breaks the rule of thirds (rule stating that an actor or whatever you focus on should be offset from the center of the frame), after he dies (segments of opening scene, scene involving him first getting out of his car, car driving up scene, segment of scene where he talks to Paul and Cheryl), all of which indicate that in life you break rules (rule of thirds) and it's not constant (unstable shots), but in death you never break rules and death is always consistent.