- 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.Monday, 23 September 2013
Comprehending Time
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:
Inception uses Dream sequences.
Inception uses Dream sequences.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
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.