Initial ideas

Characters

Scruffy, working class man. Works in office. Lives alone in flat. Shows a lowlife type of character

Essential for our opening as it shows how dramatic the sudden change in his life is after the phone call.

Settings

Flats, Big building with tiny flat-shows poorness
Office building-helps to show him have a bad day
Bus shelter- no car, gets bus to work

Props

Cigarettes, Office,Car,Bedroom/Flat, Telephone, Microwave Dinners, Bus


Phone Call Ideas

Something to change his life
A situation to make him some kind of heroic
Competition?
Find out he's needed for something-Matrix style

Inspiration For Film

Matrix/This is England/Bruce Almighty/Skins/Shaun Of the Dead- All have same old sequences in the morning, shows them having bad day