Flashbacks...again

One thing that has stayed consistent throughout our brainstorming has been flashbacks. For some reason Rachel and I are really intrigued with them and how they work to make a film opening so engaging. Because of this, I feel like our film opening wouldn’t been complete without incorporating them. At first, it was hard to figure out how to fit them into the plot we began creating, the life of a musician who goes deaf but with a little more thinking we came to a conclusion.

I decided to look up exactly how people can go deaf (which I talk more about in my next blog post) and one of the interesting things I found out is that it can be inherited!! From this discovery, we decided to include a parental figure into the opening scene, this parent is deaf and the only parent that the daughter knows. After the parent is involved in the scene, flashbacks will begin to start of all the happy times the girl and her parent have had, as well as how they bonded and got super close. Since this isn’t a main idea of the whole storyline, only incorporated to develop their relationship and the parents’s deafness, the flashbacks will be minimal. Although they won’t take up much time of the film, they’ll make a big imapact.

What exactly is that impact? Well, we figured that the story wouldn’t make as much sense without character development as well as the development of this girl and her parent. So in this case, the flashbacks are kind of explaining these two characters pasts without directly stating them.