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Suspense Flashback:
If you must include flashback in your story, design it for suspense, treating it as a proverbial Hitchockian "conversation with the ticking bomb underneath the table".
Set the ticking bomb under your flashback!
For example –
(A)
#suspense #flashback
If you must include flashback in your story, design it for suspense, treating it as a proverbial Hitchockian "conversation with the ticking bomb underneath the table".
Set the ticking bomb under your flashback!
For example –
(A)
#suspense #flashback
Show a driver drifting to sleep behind the wheel while driving fast on a highway – or even riding a motorcycle in a highway, which is even more intense – and then let that character drift into a reverie about the past.
(B)
#drama #tension
(B)
#drama #tension
As long as the audience remembers how the flashback started, it will keep building up unbearable tension.
Obviously, the flashback itself should have tension within it – it must have conflict, and the character's ability to take action may be suppressed.
(C)
#screenwriting
Obviously, the flashback itself should have tension within it – it must have conflict, and the character's ability to take action may be suppressed.
(C)
#screenwriting
Additionally, you may find creative ways to keep reminding the audience about the deadly threat in the "world outside the flashback:
For example, you may superimpose the sound of tires driving over the highway shoulder, or something similar.
(D: End of thread).
#suspense
For example, you may superimpose the sound of tires driving over the highway shoulder, or something similar.
(D: End of thread).
#suspense
