Freitag's Five-Stage Structure

2. Setting the Scene Resolution
Equilibrium is Disturbed Beginning to Resolve
Turning Point

4. The exposition is show through a montage of close-up shots that explain to the audience that the character has
an issue with organisation. This sets up the rest of the narrative as the audience can understand the problems
that the character is encountering, since they are already aware of his OCD.

5. The action rises using a fast cutting rhythm that shows the binary opposites
between the teenagers disorganising the shelves and the protagonist
reorganising them. The pace increases as the character becomes more
distressed, leading up to the climax.

6. The climax of action in the film is shown when the montage of
opposing clips ends, stunted by an unusual action: the pulling up of
the girl’s socks. The climactic point is ended by the shop assistant
being thrown out of the supermarket.

7. The action then calms as it makes its way towards the resolution. This is represented by the voiceover
of the protagonist as the camera tracks his movements towards his final goal. The action appears as if
its winding down from the previous climax, and takes a slower paced approach.

8. The end is concluded by a resolve in narrative: the protagonist is able to find a career more suited to his
condition, and the action is rounded off, and brought to an indecisive, yet satisfactory end. Even though the
audience is uninformed as to where the character continues on to, they receive enough information and closure
from the end of the short film.