UPDATE POST!

Group: Alejandro, Artur, Dio

   I have been doing much more preparation in order to better prepare myself for our initial filming days. As I've come to find out, flashbacks are a function of a character, not of a story.  "Waldo Salt, great screenwriter of Coming Home and Midnight Cowboy, told me that he thought a flashback should be thought of as a "flashpresent," because the visual image we're seeing is what the character is thinking and feeling at that present moment, whether a memory, or fantasy, or event; a flashpresent, he remarked, is anything that illuminates a character's point of view." As stated by Salt, we have to focus on making the flashback as relatable as possible with the character. Our flashback will be used to show and to give an insight on the life and story of the character.
   
   I was analyzing the opening scene leading to the flashback in the film Saving Private Ryan and have talked about it with my group. The film uses an extreme close up of the characters face in order to build up to the flashback and we think we can, without copying them, do something similar that would hopefully work just as well. Furthermore, we have decided that we will be focusing on a war veteran, however, it will not be a World War veteran. We want the actor to be young, approximately 30 years old. Our plan is to use my brother as the actor and he would be the main character.






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Saving Private Ryan opening scene