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I conducted some primary and secondary research in order to begin developing my first idea, which involved trying to source a location and looking at how different scenes have been shot in other films to get an idea of how to shoot my own.

Once I decided to be shooting my second script, I started to look into locations for this as I needed somewhere with a double bed. Thankfully, one of my friends and member of my crew Ebony Edney agreed to let me use her house to film in. This worked well as it was local and Ebony was able to drive me and the equipment to and from her house.
The idea came from a few weeks I had where I was struggling to sleep and if I did I was having nightmares every night. As this was quite a weird and tough experience I thought I could be able to adapt this into becoming a story. My first idea was to show the development of someone having no sleep over the period of a week and how it affected them so quickly, but this proved difficult as I couldn't think of how to give it a twist and how this could be linked to a meeting. You can see my thought process into this here.
After considering how it could end I thought about how it could be caused at first and looked into why people lose sleep and suffer from insomnia. I read through NHS web pages that went into insomnia and nightmares to get more of an idea of other causes, what they can be like for other people and how they can be resolved, so that I could incorporate these details into the story to make it more realistic.
After reading that previous trauma can cause nightmares, I decided to use this and needed to come up with a traumatic experience for my main character to be dealing with. I decided to use home invasion as this wasn't too difficult to look into, but could be relatable and seemed like it could have a few different outcomes.
I read news articles but didn't find anything inspiring so I watched videos on different home invasions to get an idea on why it might happen. The obvious seemed to be robbery, but this still gave me ideas. I knew that I wanted some kind of reveal to happen in the end so I decided that the robber could be someone we've seen already in the beginning of the script and never suspected. initially the idea was that the person who was believed to be robbing the place was actually the main character sleep-walking, and the wife of the main character mistook him for a home invader. However, this raised more questions than answers, or answers that were very vague and put down to coincidence. So instead I decided to use the friend that the main character confides everything in. It's made clear in the beginning that he knew about the money and wasn't fond of the main character's parents-in-law, which gives him the motive, the only question I did struggle with was how the main character's brain knew all along that that was who it was and to dream about it, which was solved with him waking up briefly and seeing Ethan there, and believing that he was dreaming. This has happened to me before numerous times which I forget about in the morning, so I knew this from personal experience.

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