Avoid unnecessary exposition by presenting story information as part of the action. If a character is talking at length about something that happened in the past, for example, you could instead insert a flashback to show the audience what happened. The key is that film and TV are primarilyvis...
Transition is the time characters spend between the action scenes, which joins the money scenes together in a natural progression. A Flashback is when a character remembers back to a time period before the story took place. Flashbacks usually help with exposition and transition. They are also us...
Question: I'm writing a story in which the backstory, which is kind of like a flashback is important. I began the first chapter with the main character … Who's the protagonist, here? Question: I've finished the 8th draft of my first novel, a contemporary romance with some comedy, bu...
Mallory lives in a home under constant physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her domineering father (Rodney Dangerfield) and doormat of a mother (Edie McClurg); that flashback plays out as a deranged sitcom with laugh track called “I Love Mallory”, filmed on a soundstage with big ...
Although the patriarch only appears in a brief flashback scene, the pure evil of this father’s dastardly deed proves that less is more when it comes to providing lasting chills in horror cinema. 6. Grandpa Sawyer from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) ...
Flashback to a tragic fiery crash on a Tokyo street. Handy explanation: “Mr. Nobody had a way of making things look real.” Implying you-know-who is coming back in the tenth film. Political messaging is negligible in “F9” although no doubt Q-Anon cultists are already busy ...
FLASHBACK:ARCHIVE ARTICLE MATTHEW G. REES on WICKER MEN FICTION... OR FACT? WHAT CONNECTS M.R. JAMES, ALFRED WATKINS & A MYSTERIOUS STONE IN THE BORDERLANDS OF ENGLAND AND WALES? FIND OUT, IN WORDS & PICTURES, HERE PHOTOGRAPHS & THOUGHTS FROM MATTHEW G. REES'S VISIT TO THE HOME OF ...
When the girls’ grandparents died, the house passed to their daughters (the girls’ aunts), who sold it to the Jews, a decision that has exacerbated some of the tensions embedded within the Nasir family, particularly amongst Sonia’s father’s generation. In another crucial flashback, Uncle...
Flashback: months (years?) ago I was here, at this very table, plugged in, writing away. Joe and his band set up on the other side of the bar, and started playing not long after eight o’clock. I listened from my remote spot, pounding with salt and pepper shakers when appropriate....
That asterisk is a signpost. It announces to the reader that you have organized your article in a certain way and that a new phase is about to begin—perhaps a change of chronology, such as a flashback, or a change of subject, or emphasis, or tone. Here, after a highly compressed ...