Initial Plot

After deciding on the story for my short film I have begun to consider the plot and events that will occur in chronological order for my short film. I have stated earlier that I would ideally intend to experiment with different narrative forms, however I feel that this process should be carefully considered and experimented with during the postproduction phase and the traditional chronological narrative should be considered during the preproduction phase.

Initial Plot Outline:

• Set within a prison cell, the male protagonist is sitting down on a chair with a duffle bag, next to him. He is facing forward and has no expression on his face.
• A jump in time, the protagonist is walking behind a prison guarded down the corridor.
• The protagonist is signing him self out of the prison and walks out and away from the prison. 
• He is sitting and waiting for a bus at the bus stop. When the bus arrives he gets on. (This is all shot at a distance and does not follow him on to the bus.)
• In side the bus, facing him over the chair, the protagonist is staring out the window watching the world go past.
• Cut to a long shot of the view out of the bus. Voice over by protagonist. 
• The protagonist gets off the bus and walk home down the street, the camera tracks him.
• He looks around constantly, this sequence is intercut with shots of people, place and CCTV cameras.
• The protagonist enters his house.
• There is a change in time.
• He is sitting down in a chair in a room that looks like it should be a living room but there is only the chair in the room. A ticking clock can be heard. (Long Duration Shot)
• Change in frame and he gets up out of the chair is walks out of the room.
• The next the audience see is him in the kitchen. He is standing aimlessly in the middle of the room.
• He puts the kettle on, a montage of him making coffee begins.
• There's only two things in the cupboard a coffee and a cup, the entire cupboard is empty apart from these items.
• After the coffee is made he leaves the kitchen, and enters the living room and sits down. 
• Many continuous shots are then shown from different angles and framings of the protagonists sitting in a chair drinking is coffee, time passes and nothing happens.
• The sound of the letterbox opening and closing can be heard, the protagonists turned his head to face the direction.
• He gets up and proceeds towards the front door and the letterbox.
• On the carpet there is a flyer that has the heading stating "The revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
• He got a flyer and turned around and walks back into the living room.
• Night falls and he remained in the living room in a chair.
• The morning comes he gets out of his chair leave the house, (making care to step over the flyer) and walks down the street.
• He enters the newsagents and go straight to the newspapers.
• All the papers have headlines that mirror that of the flyer from the previous day.
• He buys one of each newspaper returns home.
• When he gets home he immediately burns them in the fire.

After this I now feel that I need to begin to consider how I would like my short film to end and as I am having a split ending with the audience decides how they want the short film to conclude I need to script and decide upon the plot for both endings.