Concept 12 Scene

Justin and Kervin

                                                      The Janitor's Dream

FADE IN,

INT. - JANITOR'S OFFICE

ROBERT, the school's janitor, is busying himself with his normal everyday routine.  He stops for a moment to think about his life and how he got here.  In his thoughts, he is thinking:

                                                        ROBERT (V.O.)
                                           What am I even doing here? I
                                           wanted to be an astronaut, not a darn
                                            custodian.

Robert hears footsteps from behind him, knowing exactly who it is.  Without even turning around, he knows it's MS. KOLLINS, the school's principal coming to ask him to clean something up or to move something somewhere else like she always does.

PAN TO - Ms. Kollins' high heels

                                                       MS. KOLLINS (O.C.)
                                            Robert, I need you to clean up a
                                            huge mess near the cafeteria, could
                                            you do it as soon as possible before
                                            lunch begins?

CUT TO - Robert

                                                        ROBERT
                                                 (unwillingly)
                                            Yes, Ms. Kollins.  I'll get right to
                                            it.

AERIAL - Top corner of the room where we can barely see Ms. Kollins' high heels.

                                                        MS. KOLLINS
                                            Good.

Ms. Kollins turns around and walks out of the janitor's office, leaving Robert alone to his thoughts.

CU - Robert

Robert sighs and drops his equipment that was he fumbling with.  Sighing even harder, he swipes everything off the shelves.

POV - Robert

He stares at the floor, looking at all of his equipment and belongings he just threw onto the ground.
He bends down and starts to pick them up, placing them back onto the shelves one by one.  He notices an astronaut figurine, picks it up and stares at it for a few seconds.

ANGLE-ON - Shelf-level looking across the shelf

Robert tries to replace everything the way it was, very slowly.  We see him place the astronaut onto the shelf even slower than the rest of the things.

AERIAL - Same corner from before

Robert sighs one last time, grabs his equipment for cleaning up floor messes, turns off the light and closes the door.

                                                                   ROBERT (O.S)
                                                         Well, there's always tomorrow.