Short film IdeaOffice

Dialogue based

Office

NarrativeThe 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

Characters

CharactersThe 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.

Setting

SettingThe 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 IconsCoffee?

Timeline

1 1 2 3

Main character writing paperworkSlowly, frustrated with sounds repetitively checking time

Small office cubical

Phone buzzesPhone signals‘break’

Walkway

Mise-en-scene

Setting

Actions

Checks phone, gets up with sigh

Walks past college, brief meeting.

Opens door to staff office. Hesitates to walk in

Into staffroom

Voiceover criticism

STAFF ROOM STAFF ROOM

Starts making coffee

interrupted

Bell goes. leaves