Very few screen stories take place in real time. Whole lives can be dealt with in the 90 minutes of a feature film, an 8 month siege can be encompassed within a 60 minute siege. There are many conventions to donate time passing, from the time/date information typed up on each new scene of the X-Filed to the aeroplane passing over a map of a continent in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Other devices to manipulate time include:
- Flashbacks
- Dream sequences
- Repetition
- Different Characters POV
- Flash Forward
- Real time interludes
- Pre - figuring of events that have not yet taken place

Inception uses Dream sequences.
Do you mean the X-Files? Fran - you were given class time to add images of films that use some of these techniques - where are they?
ReplyDeleteYour post on Narrative would ideally be next to this post - to do this go into EDIT on the Narrative post and change the time (see right hand column to be just a few minutes before the time you published this post. You were told how to do this in class.