It’s amazing how much activity a single day can hold. It was one of the busiest days I’ve experienced in the year and involved me crossing from one side of the city to the other by train. Working on a tight schedule, there wasn’t enough room for things to go wrong. Although Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. This proved to be somewhat true. Although I’d arrived early, I was pushed off the train as I was boarding by an eager mother with her child strapped into a stroller. As I attempted to board once more the doors began closing, making it impossible for me to board and forcing me to wait another hour. Thankfully I’m somebody who likes to be ahead of time, and was still able to make it to the shoot before it was scheduled to start. The shoot took two and a half hours overall, before a two hour transit back home, before spending three hours gathering and organising items needed for my mother’s dinner party which I had taken upon myself to organise, racing to the stores before they closed. Despite having to leave the restaurant to go home and change, I was still able to make it to the dinner on time and keep things running smoothly between the guests and the staff.

The day held a huge balance of organisation and responsibility on my part, although it was stressful I enjoyed the productiveness of the day. It brought to my attention how much one can fit into the few short hours of a day. I also discovered a love of organising and planning events.

Film:

The film would show a day in the lives of three individuals, from morning to night. Each individual would have varying levels of productivity in their day. The first will be a ‘lazy’ day. She gets out of bed later than the others and takes her time through the morning routine. She sits on the couch reading a book for a bit before walking her dog. She sits on the couch some more, then prepares her dinner before relaxing on the couch again and falling asleep there.

The second will be a working father who wakes up early to get himself a coffee and prepare his child’s lunch for school before waking his child up. He helps her get ready for school and serves her breakfast. They get into the car, he drops her off at school before going to work. He checks into the office, goes about his routine before realising his daughter forgot her lunch. He drives back to her school and heads to back to the office. After his day he picks his daughter up from school, makes her a snack and finishes some work in him home office while she plays. Afterwards he makes them dinner and goes through the night routine before going to bed.

The third individual will be even busier, or at least more visually stressed. Perhaps a student studying last minute before an exam, completing said exam before needing to go to their part time job then making it home in time to cook dinner for their family.

All scenes will be linked chronologically through fast match cuts. The audience should feel exhausted from the visuals alone while feeling a sense of empathy for each individual.