Blog Post #13- Creating Flashback Research

Creating flashback in a film is not an easy task. To know more about how to do it, I did some research: 

• https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/how-to-write-a-flashback-in-a-script/
• https://filmstro.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-creating-flashback-sequences/

While doing the research I completed a one pager. When reading the articles they gave five good flashback movies that I plan to watch to try and get inspiration for the different editing techniques. My biggest challenge will be dealing with the editing techniques. Since the flashbacks start early, I have to create a way to show the viewers that I am going into a flashback. While the younger kids will be close to a dead give away, it could mean anything. In order for the viewers to gain a connection, there has to be something that signals a flashback. In the first article, it says to avoid the overused cliche and to start in the present then jump to the future, and that is how my film will be structured. Most flashbacks are used in a non-linear storytelling so that is what I plan to do. You are meant to show the un-showable by establishing the past. That is where my younger actors come in since they will show how our two protagonist met. There has to be signs in the beginning that show there will be a flashback and it has to tell more about the characters. To do this, I will show the big milestones that affected the two the most. Them meeting, going shopping, arguing, blocking one another. I plan to reveal who they each are as a person in these flashbacks so when it is the end, the viewers will have their own opinions.