Building plot and characters

Now that I know what sort of world I want to create, I need to start considering characters and story. So I want to make this man, by himself in this movie theatre, quite an average middle aged guy. When he enters this cinema, he finds that all the staff members are all quite weird characters. I’m thinking that it’s late at night, possibly the last session of the day, so there are no other customers, with about three members working, at the candy bar, cleaning and ushering etc. The theatre would be really old-styled with the usher/movie theatre worker dressed in the typical usher uniform, for a bit of theatricality.

Not having much of a plot outlined in my head yet, I’m just thinking of little scenarios that the man might face with these employees, like having the cleaning not being able to hear him whilst vacuuming, causing an awkward scene of him yelling for assistance as the employee vacuums all the way into the staff room and disappears. An employee working at the candy bar could over eagerly denying him of a free refill, regardless of the large sign that reads “free refills”. These sort of awkward yet eerie situations would be interesting to work with in the world and project I want to create.

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