Using flashbacks to tell a story/create a contrast

Our main task will include flashbacks. Flashbacks are often used in film and TV to give background information into a character's past. They help the audience to gain knowledge to make the scene more straightforward.

In our main task we plan to have a number of short flashbacks that will appear as the main protagonist refers to them. Dylan is remembering people in his life and his passion for sport as well as how he was due to become a university student. These flashbacks help to show how Dylan was previously living a happy life with which he was content. This creates a huge contrast between happiness/inclusivity and lack of emotion/isolation. The audience will, as a result, have a better understanding of just how much Dylan has lost and so will be more likely to empathise with him.

The flashbacks also create a sense of nostalgia as he thinks of his family, his friends and his girlfriend and admits to feeling lonely without them. The audience pity Dylan as they can see his struggle in losing them. He was never used to being alone and is at a loss without them.

Our aim is to show how Dylan's previous life was full of love and joy and contrast it with the loneliness that now consumes him.

We will create flashbacks by overlaying stock footage of light leaks and burned film over our taken footage. These colours create a contrast with the negative space and fray colourgraded background footage;