Writing Shark Barkley was weird for me because we weren't supposed to have any dialogue, with the exception I was allowed of one phrase spoken in such slow motion it is barely recognizable. My inspiration for this film came entirely from a stupid pun. I always used to look at no dumping signs, before I knew what they meant, and jokingly assumed it had to do with emotional split ups.  In my videography class we were required to bring in a pitch for the films we wanted to direct, and I was having a case of writer's block. I went in with nothing to say, but I remembered seeing a no dumping sign the day prior and ran with it. With ten minutes until it was my turn to make my pitch, I jotted down some basic elements I could throw around it, and threw them into something like and old movie trailer narration.  It caught the whole class' attention, and so I rolled with the idea. Now I have a film about an overzealous cop in a lazy town where the only real crime anyone ever commits is illegal dumping. It's time for that cop to take out the trash.