Flashbacks are used often throughout the film sleepy hollow. In the first flashback of my chosen extract it begins with a fade from Ichabod’s unconscious face into the memory of his mother in a garden. The flashback consists of memories of Ichabod’s childhood. His memories of his mother are fond and the lighting around scenes with her are artificially light in such a dark seeming mansion. There are flashes of a man and when he is there is lightning and rain and the lighting is very dark. The memory starts out as a happy memory of his mother and then morphs into a nightmare. This flashback ends with a sudden glimpse of a room and then cutting straight to Ichabod waking up suddenly in bed. The second flashback follows the exact same structure
