Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Decided Storyline

In order to decide what film to work on, we decided to merge our favourite ideas together, and create one joint idea. We came up with the following:

Genre: Psychological Drama


A man is stuck in a dead end job. This is shown by a sequence of short, snappy shots of him doing mundane everyday jobs like waking up to his alarm, making coffee, feeding the dog, and leaving the house.  As he’s waiting for the bus there is a match on action shot him bending down slightly to tie his shoe that then cuts to him sitting down at his to work.  The clock is at 1 minute to 12 and when it gets to 12 the man gets up and walks into the corridor. He passes two of his work colleagues who say, “Did you know that the only mammal that can’t jump is the elephant?”  (Side note: the elephant fact is used later on so that the protagonist thinks that they are having de ja vu. It also signifies ‘the elephant in the room’ expression, which in this case represents the fact the protagonist doesn't realise that the world around him isn't real.) The beginning shots are repeated but the lighting is darker to give the impression that it is later on in the day (minus the alarm one). The beginning part is repeated again to represent a new day. However, when he is waiting for the bus this time his dog's basket glitches next to him but he doesn't notice. His day carries the same as before. When he passes the people in the corridor they say the same fact, which confuses him but he doesn't question it. He goes into the main office to and the same two people are sitting at computers typing. However, (unknown to the protagonist) they aren't actually typing; their finger hover over the keys but don't type. As the day continues, continues to work and more glitches happen. parts of the walls change colour and random items appear where they shouldn't be. When he leaves work the street is completely empty. A pause sign then appears and the shot pulls back to a computer screen. The man and the world he was in actually wasn't real and is in a game being played by someone and the glitches were bugs in the game

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