The document discusses techniques used in a film to depict flashbacks and the psychological effects of war on a character. Scenes set in the present used the same location as flashbacks for continuity. Flashbacks were shown through sepia-toned or black and white footage to indicate they were in the past. Overlapping and layered videos during intense scenes added to the character's stress and sense that the past and present were colliding. Camera angles and music were chosen to help viewers experience events from the character's perspective and see how the war constantly remained on his mind.

2. To show that the narrative
was between what is now
and in the past through
flashbacks, we kept the
location in the same
place for what is
happening ‘now’. There is
no effect applied to these
videos so that there is no
confusion during the film.
We kept the character in
his bedroom to enhance
how isolated he is and
how empty the room is.

3. •We changed the video
of the child to sepia to
make it look old
fashioned similar to what
old photos used to be
like. It shows that it is a
flashback too because it
keeps returning back to
the sepia.
•The black and white is
also to show a flashback
but black and white have
unhappy connotations
towards them in contrast
to the sepia tones so this
helps the narrative in that
it shows which flashbacks
have had the worse
effect on the character.

4. •We placed these two
recording together to
show that he is looking at
himself and his friends in
the photo (old to suggest
it was when he was
younger during the war).
There is four people within
the photo including him
and there is three empty
chairs which implies that
his friends in the photo
are the ones that are
supposed to be in the
three chairs, suggesting
they may have been lost
to the war.

5. Also with the scenes of
George looking at the old
photos, we overlay a
video of a military flag
blowing in the
background which is
there to also show that in
anything he does, he is
always thinking about
something from the war. It
shows he is remembering
these memories in his
everyday life and can’t
get away from it.

6. •Here we chose to place
these to clips together
because the character if
fiddling with the medals in
his hands and we use a
transition of fading into
each other to go into a
flashback of him in his
younger years during the
war also playing with his
army kit with his hands.
•The close ups of hands in
both clips are to show
that he is taking himself
back by doing something
which relates to an event.
A continuous reminder is
their for him.

7. We chose to have
another flashback in
black and white of the
young George playing
the bugle. We thought it
would be fitting to have
the actual audio from the
video we took from the
film to be quietly put in
the background to sound
like it is in the distance
and at the back of his
mind, but still there. The
music still plays with a
faded in and out last call
adding the effect of it
being a memory.

8. We overlapped two
videos both in the same
room but from different
angles at a stressful time
of the film for the
character (he is rocking
back and forwards with
stress/anxiety). This is to
create an even more
intense feeling and
building the stress that the
character is feeling
because it is hard to focus
on one thing. We are
taking in a lot in this
scene, which suggests
things are fast moving
and hard to concentrate
on, similarly to what the
character may be
feeling. The overlay also
suggest that he has a split
personality or that there is
two sides of him, the war,
and the now.

9. Here we have panned
down a long empty
corridor to show the
isolation and to put
ourselves into the
characters place. It looks
as if we are looking down
the hall and it has
negative connotations
because it is in black and
white and moves very
slowly.

10. This camera angle is used
to look as if we are
looking over his shoulder
and seeing what he is
seeing directly. I think this
is a good camera angle
as we get to see his point
of view but we also get a
good view of what he is
looking at, the photos.

11. The character is looking
up as if there is something
above him. The choice
for this was to be used in
conjunction with sound of
war bombing so that we
can see that he still
believes it is real and
there still happening like
he is actually seeing it in
his mind.

12. Finally, the credits, we
decided to stray away
from the traditional black
and white text credits to
challenge forms and
conventions, however we
did also use this after the
main credit sequence
(producers/directors/acto
rs) to show conventions of
existing products.