Flashbacks in film

A flashback is a scene (Technique) in a film which takes the viewer back or forward in time to show a scenario or event that happened in the characters life.

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This is a flashback scene  from the 2010 film Inception , the scene is when cobb's(leonardo di caprio) wife commits suicide by jumping off a building thinking that she is in a dream reality . He remembers this during a conversation with another character.

Parralel editing and example

Parallel editing  is the technique of alternating two or more scenes that often happen at the same time or  simultaneously but in different locations. If the scenes are simultaneous, they occasionally culminate in a single place, where the relevant parties confront and meet each other.

An example of parralel editing i have found is in Schindlers list (1993) which shows shindler the main character of the film celebrating his birthday and a couple gettin married in Plaszów labor camp in poland .In this scene stephen spielberg showed the hardships and the differences between a wealthy polish buissnessman like shindler and polish prisoners in nazi concentration camps.

This is the trailer to the film : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIf1WMhgc

Jumpcut examples,camera angle examples and explanantions

Jumpcut example

Trainspotting:

In the scene in which renton the main character of trainspotting is ‘tripping’ on drugs there are various jumpcuts . This makes the film feel unreal and dreamlike .

A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This type of edit causes the subject of the shots to appear to "jump" position in a discontinuous way. For this reason, jump cuts are considered a violation of classical continuity editing, which aims to give the appearance of continuous time and space in the story-world by de-emphasizing editing. Jump cuts, in contrast, draw attention to the constructed nature of the film.

I honestly had trouble finding an exact program which broke the 5 minute rule mainly because I don’t watch much tv .

30 degree shot

The 30 degree rule is rule used in filmmaking with the purpose of creating continuity between different shots within a larger sequence of shots.

180 degree rule and examples of it broken

Never cross the 180 degree line In filmmaking, the 180° rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

Look at this scene in "The Shining" -- Kubrick shoots wide shots from both directions, a 180 degree flip, crossing the line -- but he picks  a screen direction to match close-ups on:

Montage

Montage’s

Examples of montages

This is a montage of the highly popular film rocky 4.This film has many inspiring moments which is captured brilliantly in this montage along with an original soundtrack from the film.

Moontage  is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. It is usually used to suggest the passage of time, rather than to create symbolic meaning as it does in Soviet montage theory.

Eisensteins battle potempkin

This was the first montage ever made and was directed by sergei Eisenstein in 1925.This was a soviet propaganda silent film.

My montage

I have made my own montage documenting certain parts of my day and have filmed it on my  mobile phone.These include my daily trip to college and various clips of me round my area .