Wednesday, 13 July 2016

Flashbacks

I am interested in using the aspect of flashbacks during some of the scenes - especially when Melodie and Sienna are imprisoned.

One particular flashback I would like to focus on is the punishment of Melodie and Sienna's father. This would preferably occur during Melodie's monologue:

"And what has my family ever done for me! They abandoned me to rot in the forest, framed as a traitor and spy after our father left for the modern world. Do you really think that because we share the same blood that I should have felt something? I don’t even know you. I was unaware of your existence until the Woodland Queen spoke to me of you and issued me to track you down...Our father defied her rule and she tortured him. He escaped and she doesn’t know how. She’s been trying to get me to tell for years. I have no idea what he did. He left before I could talk, leaving my mother to raise me on her own. "

I would like to present Melodie and Sienna's father (aka the Darkened One) as a cloaked figure as neither Melodie or Sienna knew their father and he is therefor a mystery to both of them. However, similar to the image of the dark nymph above, I would like the audience to be able to see his hands which I am planning to be covered in blood.

Another possible flashback I am considering is one during the last scene when Melodie kills the Woodland Queen. However I am not quite sure this would work with the flashback on the screen. Instead I think it would be very effective if Melodie hears her mother's begging and pleading voice in the background whilst she stands above the Woodland Queen. I also think it would be very effective to have the voices stop as soon as the Woodland Queen is dead.

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