There are very few story lines which take place in real time. There are life spans which can take place within a 90 minute film, an 8 month siege can be encompassed within a 60 minute siege. There are many conventions to donate time passing, from the date and the time information typed up on each new scene of the X-files to the aeroplane passing over a map of a continent in raiders of the lost ark. Other devices to manipulate time include:
- Flashbacks
- Dream sequences
- repetition
- different characters'POV
- flash forwards
- real time interludes
- pre-figuring of events that have not yet taken place.
