Pitch:Context

A slacker office worker has goal to win a vacation but how she goes about it is what ultimately leads her to question her own morale.

Themes:

Jealousy

Taking responsibility

consequences of actions

Synopsis

Theresa is a slacker worker that never takes anything at her job seriously until

one day a prize is offered for the one person who works the hardest. In order to achieve this

goal she does whatever it takes to sabotage anyone who get in her way of her prize.

Tone:

a depressing environment

Every person for themselves

chaotic and unorganized

competition heavy

crappy building

Objective: to bring awareness of the consequences of actions.

pitch: Office examples

Pitch: Three Acts

Preliminary Rough Draft Structure

Act I:

Exposition :Main character (office worker) sits down at desk and checks e-mail

Inciting Incident:

Informed of looming deadline date change. She only has 2 days to finish deadline

that she slacked off on.

Plot point 1: Freaks outs and immediately starts working

Act II:

Obstacles:

starts to working feverishly

starts the sequence of events

computer cracks

computer starts malfunction but she work through it

eventually starts slow her working pace down and starts to crash (mentally)

Midpoint:

enter hallucinations

starts to hallucination as a result of lack of sleep and combination

of bad energy drinks

imagines paper clips dancing across desk

imagines the large stack of papers taking over workspace

the papers stack and sticky notes starts to fly through the air (like birds)

the clock starts to ticks loudly and come off the wall

Act III:

Climax:

with all the flying paper sticky notes she imagines it as candy and

tries to grab them (in mid-air). As a result she falls off chair.

Resolution:

Hallucination ends

looks back at the clock and her deadline is a couple of minutes away

rushes to finish last minute work

turns in work

and goes to sleep under desk

Est. Time length (of film): 2-3 mins.

Preliminary Rough Draft Character