Shortly after the school assembly Mr Stimpson left to get the train for Norwich so he could attend the Head teacher’s conference, he is smart and aims to be on time. In his wife’s car he told her to check that the train was on time and then perhaps take her old ladies out for a drive in the countryside. When inside the station he spots two stragglers, he then shouts “9.20, my office”. He is still seen to be in authority. He continued to the platform and asked a guard which train was the train to Norwich. He then said “right” and the guard said “left. He however doesn’t listen. With that Mr Stimpson got on the train to his right and started reading his speech. Being obsessed with time he notices that at precisely 11 o’clock he heard the whistle blowing and saw the train to the left of him moving away. With grabbing his briefcase his speech dropped onto the floor and he ran out onto the platform, to the guard. Meanwhile his wife had checked that the train was on time. He ran into the car park to catch up with his wife but she had already left. This is represented by fast paced music, lower angle shots than high angle shots, a long shot in the car park and a high angle shot while he was rehearsing his speech on the train. These techniques of the sequence are used to show Mr Stimpson beginning to lose control.
More changes occurred while on the way to Norwich he finally manages to hitch a lift from a rich man in a blue convertible sports car. So Laura comes up with an idea to get Mr Stimpson out of the monk’s clothes he was wearing into the suit the rich man is wearing, so that Mr Stimpson will look presentable at the Head teacher’s conference. Mr Stimpson’s own costume the smart suit had been taken off him in the monastery and he was given robes.
While Laura the pupil Mr Stimpson had commandeered to drive was driving, Mr Stimpson was getting changed into the rich man’s clothes. This is represented with long shots, low angle shots which show he is of no importance, a lively soundtrack and his costume was torn at his sleeve, it was also uncoordinated as his shoes didn’t match and he had no socks on. Also his trousers were too short.
By know Mr Stimpson had no importance or authority. Later on at the head teachers conference he arrived exactly as the clock changed to 5.05. This shows that he was still just as punctual. We were shown this by an extreme close-up at the clock as it changed. He treated the head masters the same way as we saw him treating the children. He had told his audience he had been separated from his speech, this shows the character not being so organised. In the end the amount of sarcasm he used eventually made him loose it. He was eventually escorted away by the police from the conference; this shows us him being reduced to the status of a criminal. This is shown by a close-up, a low angle shot to show no importance when he was being escorted away by police, but when he was talking on stage they used a high angle shot. There was no soundtrack but his torn costume symbolises him loosing it, as he wasn’t presented in a smart suit and he also started raising his voice and loosing people’s concentration.
At the beginning of the story Mr Stimpson is punctual and well dressed and is very importance, but at the end he isn’t punctual and not well dressed and he is also seen to have no importance. The incidents above show Mr Stimpson well presented at the beginning and he started loosing time and his presentation. I noticed the character John Cleeze as the character which is seen to change as a result of what happened to him in the course of the narrative.
