Flashbacks

The flashback scene I believe is one of the most important scene in my film opening because it has the power to show what happened during the protagonist’s childhood that made him stand where he is now. The flashback with the combination of the images and fast motion will also serve to help establish the genre of the film and give it a more dramatic feel.

There are different techniques for flashbacks:

- Blurring the outer edges of the current scene leading to the first scene in the flashback.

-Change in the color format

For the flashback I am thinking of using the blurred outer edges and also changing just a little bit the color to make it brighter.

This is an example of how the color changes in the flashbacks 

The movie Citizen Kane (1941), The Usual Suspects( 1995) and the TV show Arrow(2012) are examples of films and in Arrow’s case TV show, that constantly use the flashback technique.  In the case of The Usual Suspects the flashback scene has something in particular that makes it more attractive, the jumpy and confused editing style that the director Bryan Singer utilizes. As well as with Arrow, almost every episode either starts with a flashback or ends with it. There is one specific part that resembles the idea that I have in mind, it is one of the first episodes when he gets back from the island and has flashbacks and nightmares about his experience in the island. I haven’t been able to find the video of this specific part and I don’t remember what episode it was, I saw it a long time ago, maybe this is the perfect excuse to watch the first seasons of Arrow all over again.

Here is an excerpt from the movie The Usual Suspect that shows the flashback scene.

The usual Suspect (1995)