I actually came up with more ideas when doing brainstorming with my fellow student, Jo Christian Figenschou and I took 3 of my ideas to the writing stage.
The weird thing is that I actually seemed to come up with more ideas if the character is to walk DOWN a staircase than up which is the original task.
Here are the 3 stories I have developed so far:
Story 1 - The Delivery Man
A delivery man is delivering a new piece of furniture in a big box to an elderly man.
Because the man is old, he can't get the package up to the first floor alone and needs the delivery man's help to get the heavy package up there. The delivery man is in a non parking zone and cannot stay for long before he will be fined.
The scene starts with the delivery man placing down the package inside the old man's house ready for him to sign the delivery papers. The old man shakes his head and points up the staircase.
The delivery man looks at the staircase, then at the box and finally at the old man with a surprised face and points at his clock. The old man points at himself by opening his arms and looking down at his own body.
The delivery man sighs and picks up the very heavy package heading towards the staircase.
As he is coming around the first corner, he gets stuck. He tries to push the package through using all his strength without any luck. He sits the package down and steps back down and looks at the situation with his one hand covering his chin.
He steps back up and tilts the package on the high side, twists it around and gets ready to pick it back up. In this moment, his watch alarm starts beeping and he stressfully pushes the package up the stairs. He runs down and gives the delivery papers to the old man awaiting his signature.
the scene ends with the old man just about to sign the papers and the box slides down the staircase, smashing into the wall.
Objective:
Get the parcel on top of the stairs and get his delivery papers signed before his 5 min parking window is over.
Conflicts:
The tight L Shaped staircase
Time
Story 2 - The Lawyer
The lawyer enters the scene as he is standing at the bottom of the 10 steps leading up to the pearly gates of heaven.
He gets ready to take his first step when he stops and looks at a sign next to the stairs showing the way to hell.
He looks between the two places a couple of times before he closes his eyes and takes a deep breath and takes the first step. As he steps onto the first step, the step illuminates the writing "You shall not steal"
He looks down and shifts his eyes from side to side, blinks and looks back up at his goal and prepares to take the next step. As he lifts his foot to place it on the next step it illuminates the text "You shall not lie". He quickly takes his foot back down on his current step. He nervously looks back down at the sign showing "hell" and looks back at the next step. At this point he blinks his eyes and changes his facial expression to a optimistic one.
He makes a small jump across the step and runs up to the top, stopping in front of St Peter with a proud and satisfied look.
St Peter shakes his head and almost instantly, the staircase transforms into a slide, sending the lawyer back down to the bottom and straight to hell.
Goal:
Get passed the pearly gates.
Conflict:
Internal:
He wants to go to heaven but knows he's not welcome because of his lifelong career as a lawyer
External:
St. Peter
Story 3 - The Night Snack
The man enters the scene as he has just sneaked outside of his bedroom and standing at the top of the stairs ready to sneak downstairs silently to the kitchen and get a night snack.
Previously he has been to the doctor and has received the bad news that he needs to watch his cholesterol levels. Because of this, his wife has cut down on the fat food that he loves so much, and to compensate for this he sneaks down to the kitchen during the night to have a snack. He was caught last night and his wife gave him one hell of a fight so he will do anything in his power to prevent this episode from repeating itself.
Just before taking the first step, he looks back towards the bedroom with a guilty face. As he starts to turn around heading back in to the bedroom, his stomach starts making noise.
He leans up against the wall and takes his first step, making the staircase squeak. He freezes up against the wall with his eyes closed, opens one eye and looks towards the bedroom.
He opens his other eye and keeps focusing towards the bedroom as he walks slowly down the stairs, pushing his weight up against the wall to minimise the chances of making more noise.
With it being dark and him looking the other way, he only manages to do a couple of steps before he steps on his son's toy car and slips tumbling down the staircase, waking everyone up.
The scene ends with him looking up on a silhouette in an angry pose.
I still haven't started sketching out any thumbnail sketches as I still don't know which one to choose. As you might have noticed, the last story is actually a character walking DOWN the staircase instead of up.
This is actually the story that appeals to me the most but since it does not work with the specification of the task I don't know if I can use it and will have to wait for a response from my module tutor and Ed Hooks.
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