It fit the constraints of a Straight 8 film perfectly (www.straight8.net), as I knew I could shoot it in sequence, editing in camera. The casting had to be right, and I was fortunate to meet Myfanwy who was working behind the bar of my local, and when she told me she was an actress, I thought she could be perfect. She's now doing very well - appearing in The Bill as well as numerous commercials (odd little known fact - both Myf and Ruth, who acts in Footsteps, have appeared in adverts for the Fiat Punto. I don't know what you want to do with that information, but there it is.) She introduced me to Alex who would play the tiny but essential role of the boyfriend, and we met to shoot in the churchyard at the bottom of Wardour St one baking hot summer day in 2001.

The shoot took about an hour in total, as I think Alex had another job to go to, and then I took the timings away to work out the voiceover with Sid and Vinnie who were doing the soundtrack. The first time I heard the music I was blown away, as it completely encapsulated the feelings I wanted to evoke.

The idea was obviously to try and match the voiceover to the images without having seen it before (Straight 8 films dictate that you hand in your undeveloped film cartridge with soundtrack seperately, and that the first time you see your film is along with the rest of the audience). I was delighted that it matched quite as well as it did - and I'm still accused of cheating, which I can only take as a compliment.

'Unrequited' was very well received when it first screened at the Other Cinema in Rupert St in May 2001. It remains one of my favourite pieces of work, and has since gone out on the Mobile Cinema tour organised by Shooting People to great acclaim. Ben Blaine, the director and organiser, described the film as a "visual poem", which I'm very pleased with.