Script 3 from Roger's class

          INT. EAST MIDLANDS AIRPORT -EVENING

          JOHNNY (23), a man with peace face, with four giant
          luggages.

          VIVIANE (24), a lady with long curly hair, with three giant
          luggages.

                              COUNTER SERVICE MAN
                    Hi ya, what can I help?

                              JOHNNY
                    I wanna collect my boarding pass.

                              COUNTER SERVICE MAN
                    Your passport and reservations,
                    please.

                              JOHNNY
                         (taking things from his bag)
                    Here is it.

                              COUNTER SERVICE MAN
                         (checking the flight and
                         trying to print)
                    I'm sorry, your flight is
                    overselling.

                              JOHNNY
                    What?! What do you mean?

                              COUNTER SERVICE MAN
                    You can't take this flight.

                              JOHNNY
                    Why not?!

                              COUNTER SERVICE MAN
                    The flight is full.

                              VIVIANE
                    Why do you do that?! We bought it
                    for £1400!

                              COUNTER SERVICE MAN
                    It's not my fault. It's none of my
                    business. You should ask your
                    flight carrier.

                              JOHNNY
                    What the fuck...? You should pay
                    for our losses!

                              COUNTER SERVICE MAN
                    Calm down young man. I've checked
                    there's another flight available.
                    But you should transfer via
                    Bangkok. If you want, I'll book it.

                              VIVIANE
                    Go ahead, but be quick. We gotta go
                    today.

                              COUNTER SERVICE MAN
                    Alright. I'll do it now. Here's a
                    contract for your carrier. You
                    could get refund more like £100.

                              JOHNNY
                    What the hell, just £100?!

                              VIVIANE
                    Calm down, Ignore it, that's ok. We
                    gotta go now.

                              JOHNNY
                         (deeply breathing)
                    Alright!
                         (pause)
                   

                              COUNTER SERVICE MAN
                    Here's your boarding pass. Is there
                    any checked luggages?
                         (moving luggages to conveyor)
                    Your luggages have exceed the
                    weight regulations. It's 10kg
                    exceeded. You should be fined for
                    £100.

                              JOHNNY
                    You mother fucker! You have delayed
                    my plan. You shouldn't fine us.

                              COUNTER SERVICE MAN
                         (talking with his supervisor)
                    Alright, that's fine. Have a nice
                    day.

                              VIVIANE
                    Thank you.

         

Script 2 from Roger's class

          EXT. A GAS STATION - DAY

                              STATION KEEPER
                    Hi ya, what can I help?

                              JOHN
                    I'm lost, where am I?

                              STATION KEEPER
                    (shrug)
                    On a desert.

                              JOHN
                    Cool, may I use your toilet?
                    (pause)

                              STATION KEEPER
                         (thinking)
                    Sure, go ahead.

          INT. A ROOM OF THE GAS STATION

                              JOHN
                    How can I get out of here?

                              STATION KEEPER
                    (shrug)
                    You may need a car.

                              JOHN
                    Oh no.

                              STATION KEEPER
                    I can give you a lift.

                              JOHN
                    Oh really?

                              STATION KEEPER
                    Yeah, I drive back home everyday.

                              STATION KEEPER
                    I can drop you downtown.

                              JOHN
                    Oh really?! Thanks a lot!

                              STATION KEEPER
                    That's Ok.

                              STATION KEEPER
                    But wait until I finished today.

                              JOHN
                    Alright, I will wait.

                              STATION KEEPER
                    That's it, brilliant.

                             
                   

Script 1 from Roger's class

          INT. KITCHEN - EVENING

          A lady is taking the vegetable and chicken out of the

          fridge, then put all of them beside the washing sink.

          VIVIANE (24), happy, with long hair.

          Viviane puts on an apron, makes her long hair ribboned and

          pull up her sleeve.

          Viviane upwraps the cover of the chicken, then she puts the

          chicken into the sink and open the tap so as to wash it.

          Viviane finishes washing the chicken and put them on the

          wood, then she cuts them into slices.

          Viviane put the slices into a bowl and pours some millet

          wine into it.

          Viviane puts the celery into the sink then she begins to

          wash it by opening the tap.

          Viviane puts the celery onto the wood then she cuts them

          into small pieces.

          Viviane washes the wok and clean up the water, then she

          opens the fire and put the wok onto it.

          Viviane pours a little peanut oil into the wok, then she

          remains it and let it hot.

          Viviane puts the celery into the wok, then she stir-fries

          them for few minutes.

          Viviane puts the chicken slices and millet wine into the

          wok, then stir-fries for few minutes.

          Viviane finishes cooking and takes a plate from cupboard,

          then fills the plate.

          INT. DINNING ROOM - EVENING

          Viviane puts the plate onto the table with some pairs of

          chopsticks, then goes back to the kitchen.

          

          

Conclusion of flashforward

Films: Sherlock Holmes 1, Sherlock Holmes 2, Malena, Flashforward TV series(1-4).

I have watched these films mainly about flashforward, but not as many as flashback films because these flashforward films are not easy to find. So from these films above I have some ideas about flashforward.

A kind of flashforward is only used for predicting what will be happened immediately, like in Sherlock Holmes 1, Sherlock shows how he can fight the guy first before he fight.

Another flashforward is used for predicting what will be happened next and analysing its both positive and negative sphere, just like in the end of Sherlock Holmes 2, two men are likely to fight together, before their fight, Sherlock begins to think about how to fight him and analyse the result of win or lost.

The third kind of flashforward is used for making comparison between reality and imagination. Such as Malena, the young boy always following the lady wherever she goes, once the lady gets closer to him, he imagines that he is kissing with the lady even making love with her, but back to reality, the lady just walk-passed him. Every flashforward in this film are in similar ways. Back to the end of Sherlock Holems 2, when Sherlock finished thinking and analysing, Watson came into the room, after that, Sherlock pushed the man out of the balcony and dropped into the waterfall, and he also suffered. So all of Sherlock's thinking and analysis are totally different from the result.

In a tv series called Flashforward, flashforward shots, which are simply brought by people's words, are displaying what they have seen in that period of sleeping, during their sleep, the time flashforward to Apr 29, 2010 from 6 months ago. So all the series are talking about what they had seen during their sleep, and they are trying to find out how to avoid something will be happened in that day.

Analysis of the end of Sherlock Holmes

As for the end of Sherlock Holmes 2, there are two flashforward shots used. The first one is in 114min 35sec, the shot flashforward to Sherlock Holmes is fighting with the man who want to kill Watson and him, and Sherlock wins the fighting by strongly hit the man's face. The flashforward shot begins with Sherlock's voice and the actions are made in slow-motion. The second one is in 115min 01sec, the flashforward shot showes us that Sherlock Holmes loses the fighting and he is pushed out of the balcony by the man and than he falls into the waterfall. This flashforward also begins with Sherlock's voice of explaining how to fight the man, and the actions still in slow-motion. These flashforward shots are the positive and negative predictions of Sherlock Holmes himself. But what happened in the end is totally different from his prediction, the two men falls in to the waterfall together. It's a great comparison of the thing happened and the prediction.

As for the end of Sherlock Holmes 1, the short flashforward shot used as well. The flashforward shots are brought by the words, the first one is the sergeant was killed in the sewage, another one is about the Blackwood's device.

Both of the end of films are flashforward shots, but in the first film, the flashforward shots are used for predicting the things had happened before and analysing; the flashforward shots in the second film are used for predicting what will be happened next and analysing then comparing.

Comments of Malena

Tonight I have watched an Italian romantic film named Malena, which was directed by Monica Bellucci in 2000. There are two main characters in this film, one is the young boy, another one is the lady that much elder than the young boy. The lady lost her husband in the earlier years because of the war, so the life of her is much worse than before. And she is heaten and fighted by other women at last because she is a prostitute and she seduces other women's husbands. From the beginning to the last, the young boy crushes the elder lady and he follows her by bicycle, even he steals her washed underwear so as to masturbates by imaging he is making love with Malena.

As for the film, many flashforward are used, everytime the young boy see Malena, the shot changes to the boy is kissing the lady even doing sex with her. But after that, instead of this kind of shot is the young boy is watching the lady who is doing the housework far from her house. In my opinion, a good comparison between imagination and reality is displayed by the film because of using the flashforward. It shows that the young boy loves the lady so much but he still remains in fantasy and imagination, maybe one-sided love is better. In 66min 48sec, the young boy tries to get closer to the lady but failed, the lady only walks passed-by. In 103min 20sec, it is the first time that the young boy talked to the lady and touched her hand lightly. Comparing to his imagination, it maybe a great contrast, and this maybe the opinion of mine that why flashforward shots are greatly used in this film. In my opinion, this is a great example of flashforward film.

Conclusion of flashback

Film I have watched: American Beauty, Walkabout, The diving bell and the butterfly, Sherlock Holmes, Scott Pilgrim, Memento, Sherlock Holmes(film), Pulp fiction, Across the Hall, Citizen Kane, God and monsters,.... (still watching).

From these films I have get a conclusion about flashback below.

Some flashbacks are used at the end of the films, to the narrative, it gives a briefly conclusion of the main character's life ,memories and etc. Like the film American Beauty (1999), when the dad was killed by his neighbour, the film begin to flashback, totally flashbacked for 3 times, introduced the reflection of the main character's wife, daughter and daughter's friend who have heard the sound of gunshot. When introduced one person, the film flashbacked the life of this person with the main character in early days. In the meanwhile, voice-over is used during the flashback, the main character memorizing his life and making conclusion in his words. The film Walkabout (1971), the end of the film is the only flashback of the film, when the little boy threw stones, the flim begin to flashback to the life of a city, so as to compare the original life and the city life. To the plot of the film, voice-over is used for the main character to memorize and conclude the period time of adventure, it's a way of giving a conclusion of the film. Maybe this voice is from the little boy who had been grown up.

Another kind of flashback is used in the middle of the film, which gives the important backstories to audiences before introducing the event which will be happened to the main character next. And the flashback pushes the development of the plot. In the film The diving bell and the butterfly (2007), the author uses flashback to remember the main character's normal life before he got the illness and disabled. In the film Gods and monster (1998), flashbacks were used to memorize the scene that the main character (the hollywood director) was directing films, fighting in the war with his army. The flashback gives audiences the background information that the main character got an illness that a person always remember the things happened before.

This kind of flashback is used for remembering what happened by following a main story line, so as to solving the confusion and working out the suspense. To the plot, these flashbacks are used to show what had happened to the main character, like Memento, Across the hall and Pulp fiction.

Comments of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a comedy film with nonlinear narrative. 

In 10min 6sec, There is a flashforward used in the film, when Scott brought his high-schooler girlfriend to the door, the shot changed to a endless snowfield and he felt alone there. The flashforward began with the brighter sun and finished with they were getting up, during the flashforward, the voice was dealed with surrounding effects. The effect of flashforward to the film is drawing the foreshadowing, because at the end of the film the shot appeared again. 

In 96min 25sec, Scott was killed by a man who is the boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend. After that the shot changed to a endless snowfield, this shot is a coordination of the flashforward shot in 10 min 6sec, because it is a foreshadowing of that.