Timelines and New Ideas

By Matt Dunn

Individual Timeline_MD

Medium- close up of protagonist at his desk- bored, uninspired, twiddling thumbs. His movement is awkward movement, hard lighting, focused on him.

Zoom into close up on his dull facial expressions- shot reverse between him and the light bulb just above his head.

Unscrews light bulb, close up on bulb as his eyes scan around the bulb, holds it in his hands bulb still alight, light bulb begins to flicker

Man tries to think hard over his work attempting to make the bulb light up, he is trying to establish the link between his thoughts and lighting up the bulb

Goes to a big pile of work, walks, tracking, medium shot, looks at the work blank expression, lights up in his hand.-Begins to gain ideas quickly move through the pile of work

Now aware that the bulb gives him ideas- close up of his face, mysterious grin. -Looks down at the bulb and begins to plan how he can use the bulb

Continues to use bulb to complete all office work at every station not just his own. – Use of jump cuts Diegetic sound of him writingclose ups of his face and light bulb whilst he is working

Once all work is completed- he circles the room, thinking about how else he can use the bulb.Spots the safe in the corner of the room but dismisses the idea- close up on the safe

Continues to wander the room trying to think of new ideas of how the bulb can be used (ironic) but still keeps going back to look at the safe and the bulb flickers wildly- shot reverse shot between man and bulb

He gives into temptation and goes over to the bulb picks it up and goes over to the safe gains an idea of how to open the safe- close up of safe

Gains combination to the safe- dark tones built up. Money in safe- close up. Attempts to remove money from the safe .Bulb explodes spark hits money, money burns in his hands (Close Ups)

Group Timeline

Title screen flickers with non diegetic sound of radio static in the background linking to the title of the piece.

Protagonist is now captured through carious close ups and eye line matched filling out a crossword, becomes clear to the audience that he is struggling.

The light bulb in the lamp begins to flicker and so the protagonist decides to change the bulb

Discovers the powers of the bulb and is overwhelmed, completes the cross word with ease then begins to scour a newspaper for jobs

Circles maths job, goes over to book shelf takes down maths book and begins to solve a difficult problem in it, close ups heavily used here and tracking shots to follow his movement.

Cuts to the protagonist on a sofa waiting for an interview, he is scruffily dressed sitting next to another candidate who is far more smartly dressed.

Interview sequence commences, pace of scene builds, confidence of protagonist turns to arrogance begins to rant

Arrogance grows and grows, pace building ore and more until the bulb breaks under the table and the characters facial expression is captured through a critical close up.Tension and Pace

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