Elise Thompson

Influences and inspirations

Our storyline
A young adult, Adam, is walking through a park on his way home
during his walk he sees three individuals in which he gets a psychic
envision of what its like to be them. When Adam arrives home he
takes a long look in the mirror but cant seem to identify his
reflections. As time passes throughout the day Adam begins to
adopt the characteristics he saw throughout the day. He tries to
identify with himself in order to overcome his 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.

Elise Thompson

Secret Window (2004)

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.