Timeline

1. Timeline
Verbal/non-verbal/technical codes
1. Development of emotions, start on happy notes
and lead into more stress
2. Opens with multiple shots of protagonists
showing different emotions (sad, scared, happy,
etc.
3. Shows shots of someone finding and accusing
someone of using
4. Opens with shots of set pieces and text
promoting the show (local pubs and roads and
swings swinging while voice over plays) – Eye level
shot of swings – birds eye shot of people talking in
the street – low angle shot of couple arguing –
Using key words and phrases like “You did this”
and “I cant do this any more” during voice over.
5. Shot of pushing a bag in his pocket – voice over
saying “you have to stop” and “I cant”
6. Shot of someone walking alone down an alley –
Tracking shot from in front of them, empty
alleyway is visible from behind
7. Shot of same person looking anxious (close up
on face) looking around (in the same alley way)
8. Reveal image of happy couple and change focus to
reveal man wearing all black in the background of the
shot – shot is eye level
9. Shot of same person speeding walking (heavy
breathing) figure is visible in the background
10. Use close ups of someone drinking then cut to
someone else smoking then cut to someone passed out at
the bottom of the stairs, implied they have fallen or been
pushed
11. Shot of same person walking really fast and then when
they have passed a figure is closer and more visible in the
background
12. Tracking shot of people walking down an alley way,
the camera pans away and the same figure in all black is
seen closer
13. Final shot is of a person who is facing the camera on
the floor, it is implied they are dead
14. BBC2 08:00pm
15. End
Chalk Lane

2. Plot lines
Stalker and victim
– pursuit – builds tension
Drug addiction
– Couple arguing and falling out – alcoholism
– starts normal and develops into struggling to cope – depression and OD in the alley