Originally shot to be a feature film, Jigsaw was an adventure in microbudget solo filmmaking in which the filmmaker took on all roles of production – except for creating the music and acting. Shot on a budget of only $400 (later ballooned to $1150 after having to get insurance for a vital location), Jigsaw was shot over a two week period with a few pick up shoots after the fact. Because it is a non-chronological piece, it created a million possibilities for edits and could have been edited forever. Finally a path was set and the film was completed as a 76 minute feature film. After some time and continued growth in the knowledge of movies, it was realized that the story itself was what made the film. Clouded by “wanting to make a feature”, the intent was all about length of the picture rather than the effectiveness of it. The feature film was decent, but it lacked character development of almost all the characters which makes it quite hard for an audience to get on board with it… so eventually it was re-edited. Not that this is such an amazing feat, but nonetheless something I’m proud of (and exposed the true lack of character building), I was able to cut down the 76 minute film into a tight 22 minute short film that keeps the essence of what the story is about – which is essentially “how do you solve a puzzle if you don’t know what the puzzle is of/about.” Though quite different and nowhere near as good, Jigsaw was inspired by Christopher Nolan’s first feature: “Following” – which I highly recommend.