Scott Marshall - Time Travel Devices

Time machines in the media tend to either be elaborate contraptions or relatively simple, everyday things that are tweaked or have otherworldly powers. The most famous time machines in popular culture are the Dolerean from the Back To The Future series, and the phone booths featured in Dr. Who and the Bill & Ted films.








The use of everyday objects acting as time travel devices is a useful tool we can use in our film. As opposed to a large, elaborate time machine, things like phone booths allow the far fetched notion of time travel to happen within a world that viewers can identify as our own. Due to the relatively large budgets available to producers of film and television, the act of time travel is usually shown through the use of CGI, something which we will not be able to utilise. This means we will have to show time travel through things like editing, or simply allude to it as opposed to actually showing it.