2. Office
Narrative
The narrative revolves around the main characters
criticisms of the everyday workplace. Both internal and
external dialogue play important parts to the film as on
this characters ‘break’. A series of unfortunate events
all characterise a typical ‘bad day’, starting as he enters
the staff room he immediately begins to look for his
food, finding that its already been eaten he progresses
to making himself a coffee he is consistently slowed
down by interaction with his colleagues. Until
ultimately his break is over, and he's achieved nothing
3. Characters
Characters
The main character (Dave) is a very average
white collar worker with strong opinions that he
keeps to himself. He criticises everything around
him, his boss, his job and general life in a
pessimistic and nihilistic fashion. Generally stoic
in nature he will also have subtle traits of a dark
sense of humour.
4. Setting
Setting
The entire setting of the short film is in a small
‘suffocating’ office. Dull colour and cramped
spaces make the majority of the feature
uncomfortable. This represents the ideology of
the character and his/her perception of the
environment
Icons
Coffee?
5. Timeline
Checks phone, gets up
with sigh
Main character writing
paperwork
Slowly, frustrated with
sounds repetitively
checking time
Opens door to
staff office.
Hesitates to
walk in
1
Walks past
college, brief
meeting.
interrupted
Starts making coffee
1
Bell goes. leaves
2
Actions
Mise-en-scene
Phone buzzes
Phone signals
‘break’
Small Walk Into
staff
office
way room
cubical
Voiceover criticism
STAFF ROOM STAFF ROOM
Setting
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