Film Pitch - Lifeline

Amy, Louisa, Jess and Lianne

Our Film - Lifeline

• Our film bases around the usual codes and conventions for psychological thrillers, with a large emphasis on the unknown, and mental ability/disability. The overall film will follow Torodov's theory of equilibrium.

Plot• Equilibrium: Belle, the main characters normal day to day life will be shown, spending time with her boyfriend and her dog

(this will also be shown in the trailer). Her life will follow a normal pattern with day to day routines and nothing extravagant happening, something which is fairly traditional within the beginning of psychological thrillers.

• Disequilibrium: The less than thrilling lifestyle Belle leads will suddenly be disrupted by the main antagonist, a character who is sent on trial for stalking Belle herself, something she had no idea was going on. This will obviously have a large impact on the character, and make her feel less than safe in her own home upon seeing the evidence for the trial which consists of a makeshift timeline full of images of her over her lifetime. What Belle won't be told is that there is more than one victim in this, and many other timelines were found of other people, with no obvious link between them. During this time, everything in Belle's life will begin to disintegrate, ruining aspects of her life bit by bit. Her boyfriend will leave her, her dog gets run over, and a long list of other 'coincidences'. It will then come to light that there is someone trying to make her life turn out like this, someone else with control over timelines, who is causing all this grief in her life, and many other lives. Belle discovers this when she goes home to find her family home has been broken in to and photographs of herself have been left everywhere, but photos of all the bad things that have occurred, including an image of her at that moment in time. When she secretly goes to visit the original stalker in prison (where he is being detained until the end of the trial) he tells her everything, twisting the facts she knows on their heads as it turns out, he is a good guy. His main aim in life has been to correct everything the actual antagonist does, and to stop all these bad things happening to people. Belle's new goal is to prove him innocent, something that doesn't work, as the other guy is still at large and causing bad things to happen to her and others. It becomes clear to Belle that she needs to find him, and stop him somehow. Although everything she has to do needs to be kept secret, and never mentioned, to limit the possibility of him finding out. She enrols the help of the other victims, and together they manage to find him and cut the timelines, destroying them and his power. They take all the photographs and hide them, too afraid to destroy them.

• New equilibrium: The new equilibrium will occur when Belle manages to destroy the evidence against the original antagonist for the trial, and he cannot be detained any further, as all victims do not want to press charges. With the man they've grown to understand free and the workings of the antagonist destroyed, a new order is restored, until the photographs are found in her home, rebuilt into timelines, with all the new workings out done by Belle herself.

Locations

As is typical with a psychological thriller, our locations will be everyday ones, that take on a new significance as the plot develops;

• Houses•Streets •Open and enclosed spaces – early in the film/trailer.

Basic Concept of Poster

Basic Concept of Magazine Cover

Storyboard