Elise Thompson

Influences and inspirations

Our storyline
A young adult, Eve , is walking through a park on her way home
during her walk she sees three individuals in which he gets a
psychic envision of what its like to be them. When Eve arrives home
she takes a long look in the mirror but cant seem to identify her
reflections. As time passes throughout the day Eve begins to adopt
the characteristics she saw throughout the day. She tries to identify
with herself in order to overcome her disorder.
Comparable products
When drafting ideas for our first production we decided to look into
similar productions within the dramatic thriller as well as
productions that are centred around mental illness

Shutter Island (2010)

This film is based around a U.S Marshal who
investigates the disappearance of a murderess who
escaped from a hospital for the crimically insane on
this island, however, in the end the audience learn
that not everything is as it seems and in actuality
the protagonist is suffering with schizophrenia and
the verisimilitude he has created does not correlate
with reality. We took note of the camera angles
present in these films as it helps the audience to
focus on the facial expressions of the protagonist
and will allow Sophie as the director to
communicate the type of expression she will expect
someone with a mental illness to display.

Secret Window (2004)

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This film follows the narrative of writer Mort

Rainey who relocates to a remote cabin in
attempt to recover from his split personality
disorder he meets a farmer who claims Rainey
plagiarized his work. The farmer begins to get
vicious in his quest of retribution. This relates
to our production as Adam suffers from the
same disorder in which he adapts different
personalities that differs from his. Once again
the cinematography within the production
would have given our director an insight into
the types of facial expressions and the uses of
editing techniques able to portray the mental
instability of our protagonist.