This document discusses techniques for manipulating time in film. It provides examples of how to show that 100 years, 1 year, or 24 hours have passed using the same film set through changes to objects or lighting. It also offers suggestions for making it clear to the audience that a scene depicts a dream or flashback, such as using blurred or black and white footage and split screens.

1. How is time
manipulated in film?

2. 1. As an opening to a film how would
you show that 100 years have
progressed using only one set?
• To show this you could show something
that has changed over a period of time like
having an old horse and cart and then show
a new car.

3. 2. Using four shots how would you
demonstrate a year has gone by using
the same set?

4. 3. Think of three other ways of
informing the audience a year has
passed by.
• One way to show the audience a year has passed by
could be a calendar and someone ripping off each
month.
• The second way to show the audience a year has passed
by could be having a date on a newspaper.
• The third way could be having a new year party and
showing the dates change from on year to another, for
example having the year change from 2011 to 2012.

5. 4. How would you show that 24 hours
have passed using the same subject?
• A way this could be shown is having someone
in a chair in their living room and using the
lighting for example showing it dark on a night
then have the lighting change and get brighter
to show that hours are passing until it gets
backs to the dark lighting.

6. 5. How would you make it clear to the
audience that the next part of the
narrative is a dream?
• To do this you could have someone asleep and
the camera can zoom close to them, then it
can have a split screen at the top of the screen
can be the dream but can be blurred a bit to
show it is not real.

7. 6. How would you make it clear to
your audience that the next part of the
narrative is a flashback?
• To do this you could have someone look like
they are thinking and the flashback could go
blurry and change to black and white, you
could also have quick flashes and clips of the
dream to make sure the audience knows it is a
flashback.