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Girl On The Blue Line Screenplay
A psychological mystery following Elle, a girl haunted by fractured memories, sisterly love, and survival on the Blue Line subway. What begins as a gritty night unravels into a gutting revelation.
Project Type
Original Short Film Screenplay
Date
May 2023
Course
Audio and Visual Communication | Media Studies Major | Semester 4
“You were born with sad eyes, Elle. But also, a beautiful smile.”
What Sparked This?
This screenplay was written for my core course on Audio and Visual Communication, where we explored the relationship between sound, image, and narrative form. The brief asked us to write an original screenplay that could translate visually and emotionally to screen. I adapted an old mystery short story I had written and reimagined it as a tense, atmospheric film with psychological depth.
What I Explored
This script explores the question: How does memory distort reality, and what does survival look like when your mind becomes the antagonist?
Through Elle’s fractured perspective, I examined themes like mental illness, trauma, and sisterhood. Writing it taught me how to weave interior monologue with exterior action, to let visual moments and silences reveal just as much as dialogue. I experimented with pacing, hallucination sequences, and small sensory details to create tension and keep the reader guessing: Is Lily real? Is Elle running from someone or from her
My Key Takeaways
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Learned to structure a screenplay with beats, acts, and emotional turning points
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Developed a deeper understanding of voice-over as a cinematic device
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Realized the power of writing with unreliable narrators and ambiguous storytelling
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Emotionally, this script taught me how characters can carry both light and darkness, and that mystery isn’t just in plot twists, but in the people we write
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