From Script To Screen - More Ideas

 The first two ideas are very similar but have slightly different ways of tackling the story. Feedback is definitely wanted, let me know if the ideas are working, which one is your favourite and if you would change anything.

Premise:

Discovering freedom from an unrewarding life

- Door to door salesman feels trapped in his job, depressed

- Visits local zoo to relieve some stress

- The salesman looks at the animals and feels as if they reflect his lack of freedom back at him (shot of him as if he was behind the bars)

- He sees a bird, stuck in a cage. He notices the cage is broken and tries to help the bird escape.

- He tries to scare the bird into the direction of the hole in the cage, after a few attempts the bird breaks free and flies off

- After seeing the bird fly free he feels empowered and realises if he can set a bird free, why can’t he set himself free

- He rips off his tie, throws his suit jacket on the floor and throws his briefcase into one of the animal enclosures.

- He then skates off using a board he was meant to sell, he skates out of the zoo (screen fades to black)

Premise:

Obtaining freedom from the entrapment of a lifeless job

- Door to door salesman feels trapped in his job, depressed

- Visits local zoo to relieve some stress

- The salesman looks at the animals and feels as if they reflect his lack of freedom back at him (shot of him as if he was behind the bars)

- He remembers a time in which he was a little boy, skate boarding around in the streets, free

- He leaves the zoo, goes to a shop and buys a skateboard, on the way he removes his tie and oppressive uniform

- For the first time in a long time he feels free again as he skates away into the distance

Premise:

The empowering freedom from love, which adds a spark to a dull life

- Door to door salesmen doing his job, when he sees a young woman with bright coloured hair skating past him, their eyes connect for a brief moment. (love interest)

- He sees her as a free spirit, flying free like a bird, stuck in his mind

- He goes to his local zoo, in need of something to lighten his mood

- While there he begins to look around at all the animals, stuck in cages. Much like he is trapped and not free like the young woman who sticks in his memory

- He feels overpowered by the cages and starts stepping backwards; he falls over something and shuts his eyes.

- When he opens his eyes it’s the young woman from earlier, she holds her hand up to pick him up. Their eyes connect again and for once he feels free. (I feel like there should be a shot where he’s holding her, and it’s a side shot of them and birds in the background scatter and fly free)