NARRATIVES - "9 TO 5"

“9 TO 5”

The concept for our 2 minuet narrative shot film is based around one person’s transition into education and university life.

Our character in this story is a young man who has been working in a dead end, 9 to 5 office job for some time. He has grown bored with his minimum wage income, tired of his repetitive daily routine and he feels like his life is going no where fast. Just another cog in the machine.

Whilst on his break at work one day, our character is sat at his desk flicking through a comic book to pass the time. After a short while, he slips off to sleep at his desk and enters into a dream about quitting his job and going to university.

We enter into a comic book style dream. With all this new found freedom away from working 9 to 5 our individual turns into a bit of a “party animal” and doesn’t take this new life as serious as he should be.

This dream shows us his down falls and how miss understood the meaning of becoming a student is to him. Here is a great example of the “comic book style dream” that we are looking to achieve, cheese on toast.



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He is awoken from his dream by his boss, who in turn fires him from his job for sleeping whilst at work. This however does not phase our character as he has now made up his mind to go back into education… and this time he knows what not to do. We believe this short film will carry a very relevant message about the attitude and approach to university life.

(one that I feel I SHOULD enforce upon myself)