Paige said one her of favourite scenes, which had to be cut to keep run-time down, involved Tim's personal reflections of other drivers during rush hour - reflections he wouldn't usually verbalise, but are heard by the other drivers regardless. Add to this a dance number, a talking baby and dog whose thoughts are never really acknowledged by any character except Tim and you have to wonder how sane the character is.
"People have done films where one character is telepathic, but no one's ever done a film where everyone is telepathic," Paige said.
The film presented a novel challenge in the audio-visual sense.
Armed with experience from working on Power Rangers sets, Paige was conscious of making sure telepathic speech followed the same verbal patterns and inflections as if the actors were speaking aloud. Each scene had to be shot a number of times, with the first few takes including speech, and the later ones communicated telepathically, which were then dubbed from the first recordings.
Paige approached Kiwi actor Ben Fransham, who took to the project immediately.
"We ended up doing the screen revisions together."
The pair communicated over Facebook, phone calls, and Ben even forced Paige to master Twitter as another means of communicating.
To bring Ben into the production as lead character, a Givealittle page was started and raised $750, which also allowed Paige to bring Kiwi actress Mary Rinaldi in to play Tim's wife.
Paige said the experience had given her the confidence to pursue other projects, which include a post-apocalyptic film she plans to base just outside Palmerston North in the same area as The Last Samurai was filmed.
Unlike most films of the genre, Paige said hers will highlight the usefulness of the older generation.
"I want the film to acknowledge the knowledge and value that older people have. It would be about respect going back to the older community who know how to do things, especially with their hands."
Paige hopes this future product will allow her to delve into stunt work - something she has always wanted to experiment with.
"Now I know people who can set up stunt rigs. It's uncommon for women to do that kind of thing."
She also has hopes to film a TV pilot for a new show called Classless, a project she described as a mix of Friends and Orange is the New Black.
"In the 1980s, New Zealand was seen as a classless society. All the stories are from real people's experiences. It will look at how people now think they're classier than other people and try to distinguish what is classy and making a joke out of that."
Mime is now in its final stage of editing, and Paige has the unenviable task of cutting it down to 12 minutes.
Paige is currently in her third year at Wintec and directing the film as her final piece for her bachelor's degree.
An open public screening of all the Wintec student works will be held at 7pm on November 25 at the Wintec Hub.