Main Task- Flashbacks

Using flashbacks to explain something from the past in two minutes was the ideal thing to do in my main task. By using flashbacks the viewers can understand our film from the beginning. For example, at the start of the scene, you’ll see our main character Alicia panicking hysterically, but the audience won’t know why. So by adding in flashbacks the audience will get to see what caused her to get into this situation. However, by doing this it opened a lot of options on how we were going to edit this and make it a lot scarier with different editing techniques, for example, changing the contrast, colour, sounds and transitions. In addition we could use a wide range of camera shots to create the flashbacks. For Example, Long Shot, Close Ups, Extreme Close Ups, Over Shoulder Shot, Medium Shot etc…

Additionally by including dialogue and Diegetic sound in our outside club flashback scene, it helped us play around with the sound when coming to editing it. However, we wanted the scene to look realistic. But unfortunately the time we chose to go and film at the club, was not a busy time to go, as there weren’t many people there. So we decided to use our film crew in the background as extras laughing enjoying clubbers; this made it more practical and ordinary. Finally, before filming the club scene we had to ask the manager to switch the outside lights on, as without it the lighting was quiet awful.