I found this week’s exercise really interesting as it was fun to think of possible outcomes of modern-day problems and issues. Since I usually take the train to university every day, I decided to base my concept off of public transport, and the significance it has on modern society. I wanted to explore ideas of our reliance on high-speed travel and what consequences could occur if it just stopped one day. I tried to implement some comedy in the summary to highlight the absurdness of the scenario and to bring something new to an ‘end of the world’ story, to which I think I had varying success.

Summary Concept:

A woman is waiting impatiently for a train on an empty platform, annoyed that she will be late for work. It appears that the world is falling apart around her: houses are on fire, cars are crashed on the side of the road, the streets are empty of people and there are explosions far off in the distance, but all she seems concerned about is not being late, as she slowly makes her journey to get to work on time. This is a dark comedy surrounding society’s reliance on systems and technology in place that helps us run coherently; people slaving away as cogs in a machine whose lives revolve around a meagre contribution to society, and what would happen if everything stopped running.