Core Narrative 6

**Title: Shut In**
**The Hero:**
John, 25 gawky young guy, has never really implied himself before. He sort of goes with flow, lives paycheck to paycheck. He’s never been in a situation where he has had to step up and prove his worth, until now.
**Physical Goal:**

They need to get out of the elevator.
**Emotional Goal:**

He needs to prove himself to be less of a passifict and more of the leading man he is meant and want to be.
**Personal Obstacle:**

He needs to overcome his own personal view of himself; he needs to get rid off all the thoughts of him not being worth living his full life, and be who he is meant to be.
**Villain:**
Humphry, 24 year old privileged man, is the douche at the office. His dad owns the business so he thinks he can do and say anything and he will get a gold star at the end of the day. Basically, his ego stands at 6’4 while he stands at 5, 7.
**supporting cast:**
Joanna, 23, uses this job to as a jump off to do her own company.
Mike, 19, he is a shy, awkward, smokes a lot of weed type intern.
Marge, 43, has a lot of cats but also has anger issues that comes out.
**Locations:**
The Elevator.
The Lobby.
Outside of the building.
**Logline:**
A group of coworkers at a startup company, get stuck in an elevator. Meanwhile, the world is getting taken over by spirit beasts, and the have no idea.

**Medium:**

I feel like this story could be told in quick, funny segments. A 6 - 7 episodic series that gives a comic relief to this drama/fantasy story.

**Platform:**

With the popularity of this story world, this kind of story, made with same type of production value would be really interesting to watch.

**Media:** (TV Show/ Netflix)

**Age Group**: 18-25

**Synopsis**:

This story follows a guy named John. He’s a tall, gawky, introverted type; a “shut in” if

you will. He’s the type of guy that would never push himself to go above and beyond; he doesn’t

have the will or good enough knees too. John works at a start-up company where the owner’s

son, Humphry, makes sure to remind him how small of a person he is everyday. Being the boss’s

son, Humphry feels entitled to pretty much anything and anyone. Including Joanna, a young

smart mouthed IT girl, who John has been secretly in love with since she started six months ago.

The day was just like any other day for John; he woke up, brushed his teeth, had a Pop tart

(the one with no icing), rode his air bike to work, stared at his screen for 5 hours, then go into the

elevator to head home. However, on this day, John was happy to be alone in the elevator until

Humphry jumped in just before it closed. Horrible. Then, Joanna jumped in. Getting better. Then,

Marge, the multi personality who lives with multi cats and is a senior executive, comes in. Ugh.

Then, Mike, the weird new intern whose there for college credits who always looks like he’s just

done a fart and sees if anyone's noticed. Great.

On this day too, something happened that would be Johns living nightmare, the elevator

gets stuck. The first hour was rough, the fifth is where Marge starts yelling and crying that

they’re going to die, the twelfth hour is when Joanna starts breaking down the walls she has up

and opens up to John, the twentieth hour is when John becomes finally fed up with Humphry and

tells him how he feels and where to stick his marketing reports, the twenty-fourth hour is when

John decides to take lead and crawls out of the top of the elevator into the shaft, the twenty-sixthhour is when he's able to open the doors and gets everyone out, the twenty-sixth and quarter hour

Joanna kisses John. Then, they walk outside and see a bunch of half mutated animal-people and

complete and utter destruction. So they go back inside and stay in the elevator for a little bit

longer.

**Additive Comprehension:**

This is a character reveal. Gives a look into what’s happening to the people around the craziness of the story.

**Opportunity to Shift:**

Found footage style series on Facebook from the security cameras in the elevators. This would show the little side conversations and character development that is not shown in the main series.