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Foreshadowing only hints at a possible outcome within the confinement of a narrative and leads readers in the right direction. A flashforward is a scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature , film , television , or other media.
A flashing arrow is a type of emphasized foreshadowing, an audiovisual cue used in films and similar visual media to bring the attention of the audience to a particular object or situation, which will later be referred to or used in the advancement of plot. [1]
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Screen direction is the direction that actors or objects appear to be moving on the screen from the point of view of the camera or audience. A rule of film editing and film grammar is that movement from one edited shot to another must maintain the consistency of screen direction in order to avoid audience confusion.
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It is similar to foreshadowing, in which future events are not shown but rather implicitly hinted at. It is also similar to an ellipsis , which takes the narrative forward and is intended to skim over boring or uninteresting details, for example the aging of a character.
Motifs may also be used to establish mood (as the blood motif in Shakespeare's Macbeth), for foreshadowing (as when Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein, mentions the moon almost every time the creature is about to appear), to support the theme (as when, in Sophocles' drama Oedipus Rex, the motif of prophecy strengthens the theme of the ...
The cinema, for Eichenbaum, is a “particular of figurative language,” the stylistics of which would treat filmic “syntax,” the linkage of shots in “phrases” and “sentences.” [1] Russian formalists Eichenbaum and Tynyanov had two different approaches to interpreting the signs of film.