STORYLINE: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MULTIPLE STORYLINES
Looking at the Media Study Design Key Knowledge we need to understand the "nature and function of and relationships between story elements in fictional media narrative, including: the relationship between multiple storylines."
Storyline is the plot of the film. Many films have multiple storylines to keep the audience engaged. Sometimes these storylines stay very separate and other times they crash into each other - as seen in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Ritchie, 1998), and also in our Narrative film Snatch, by Guy Ritchie.
Sometimes the multiple storylines have characters that do not know each other but are linked by an event or one character.