Short Film Plan

Outline:

  • Starts off with Maya at work. All her efforts have amounted to nothing.
  • She goes home and crosses work off her to-do list. and head straight to what appears like a closet, but is actually a reading space filled with fairy lights
  • She reads her book, the fairy lights reflect in her eyes
  • She’s upset as she goes through her day, aimlessly flicking through TV, cooking or something. She gets an unfortunate text/a text that means she has more work to do.
  • She goes back to the closet and turns on the fairy lights and reads. The book prompts her to imagine something strange.
  • A DVD has appeared outside the closet. She goes downstairs and plays it. It’s a tape from her future self, telling her about how decisions she makes matters and that life gets less overwhelming. She looks in the mirror and the smiles?
  • She’s back in the closet, leaves, and add quit job to her to-do list
  • She’s at work. The boss is surprised. She was voted least likely to leave.
  • She leaves the workplace.

 

Themes and Ideologies:

  • Slight Sci-fi theme
  • Determinism
  • The power of creative things e.g. books and film

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