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Task: Write up these different concepts of time providing your own examples that relate to thriller films. Do any of these techniques appeal to you for your own OTS and if so why?
In
movies, very rarely do we see screen stories taken in real time. In feature
films whole lives can be dealt within 90 minutes, with a 60 minute TV
documentary it can take around 8 months. There are many conventions to denote
time passing, from the time/date information typed up on each new scene of 'The
X-Files' to the aeroplane passing over a map of a continent in 'Raiders of the
lost ark'.
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Flashback from 'The Vampire
Diaries'
In Katerina |
Other
devices to manipulate time includes:
- Flashbacks - For example in 'The Vampire Diaries' there is various flashbacks to 1492, showing Katherine's back story with Klaus and Elijah and how she became a vampire.
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Dream Sequences occur in
'Inception' quite significantly |
Dream
sequences is a technique used in storytelling. It is mainly used to set a brief
interlude from the main story. The film 'Inception' (2010) consists of dream
sequences as they are tiered in a dream within a dream, this is also referred
to false awakening; which is a false vivid and convincing dream about awakening
from sleep.
- Flash forwards:
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Two corpses outside W.W's
driveway
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A flash
forward takes the narrative forward in time from the current
point in time. Flash-forwards are often used to represent events expected,
projected, or imagined to occur in the future; for example Breaking Bad uses
flash-forward throughout its second season showing a mystery regarding debris
and corpses outside Walter Whites driveway, which revealed to be the result of
two planes crashing overhead.
Other time manipulation in films include:
- Repetition
- Pre-figuring of events that have not yet taken place
- Reverse motion
- Freeze frame
- Ambiguous time
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