As our hero unlocks her iPhone with Face ID she discovers a sudden ability to unlock everything around her with just a look. Intrigued, she starts unlocking anything she can lay her eyes on. Running through her school, she opens lockers, desks, art cupboards, even some trapped amphibians. If only everything unlocked as effortlessly as Face ID on iPhone X …

Unlock was a very simple idea that the director (working with the creative team), tried to push as far as possible in terms of narrative and in-camera techniques. The story was very precisely timed to an existing piece of music, and practical effects involving hydraulics, air-mortars and electronic triggers were employed to make things “unlock” in synchronicity with actor’s performance.