After lengthy discussions within our group, we decided upon a simple storyline - a character walking to a location, exchanging dialogue and then leaving. However, we decided to add a comedic twist to the storyline to make a film that would have been quite uninteresting given the specific task which left little room to engineer a more exciting storyline, more entertaining.
The protagonist of the story's pen had run out of ink and thus sets of down a series of corridors to ask a colleague for a replacement pen. The protagonist is made to look nervous due to the agressive nature of the colleague, which would be made apparent later. When he reaches the office and asks his colleague for a pen, the antagonist, apparently enraged, throws the protagonist from the room. However, the audience is quickly shown that the sprawled protagonist has somehow gained possesion of a pen. He then exits through the corridors proudly, the story ending with the protagonist jumping down a flight of stairs in celebration.
Admittedly, the story is non-sensical and contains some major plot holes but we thought the quirky nature of the piece adds to the comedic value. We would have put more thought into the storyline but we were eager to begin filming - our first opportunity to do so. We were unconcerned by the ropiness of the storyline as we felt that with this early piece, the techniques and learning process were more important than the actual storyline.
