In this blog, I look at the second of my personal explorations, I observe the origins of the story, look at some external inspiration influencing my creative choices and develop the story to the point at which I can start a story outline. Like Part III of this Chapter, I will be developing this further going forward, this serves simply as an introduction to the project as well as a way to document its initial development. At the start of 2019, I was dealing with the separation of my girlfriend and me, her having had to go back to Germany to continue her study and me having to stay in Invercargill. This was a very difficult situation for me to process and consumed my waking hours, the stories ideas generated during this time directly related to this change in my life and I have decided to revisit one of them which I remember quite clearly - and serves as a good example of why I chose this specific question this year. The idea was to make a long-distance horror movie, a short that ...