After conducting a site recce and speaking with a number of the current students, it was clear that for a lot of them, the desire to be a pilot started at a young age. We used this as the main focus of our narrative, following a young boy’s journey from a cardboard cockpit in his bedroom to the runway of his future flight school. We used lighting and sound-design to create a sense of increasing pace in the film, moving from the magical, childlike atmosphere with our young pilot to a more ambitious energy as he becomes a student.