Thread: Reverse drama-Need Help

I am trying to write a TV drama.Duration 40 mins.I want to write it in reverse order i mean i am trying to apply reverse chronology.My story will start from last scene.
Last scene is a dead body of a girl in a jungle at mid night.She murdered.then i want to show who murdered then why she came to the jungle at mid night then who is she then why she murdered...in that way...
I mean usually story goes like from 1..2..3..4..5. But i want to write 5..4..3..2..1 in that way.
But problem is i cant link the sequences.I cant go from current sequence to previous sequence maintaining the same curiosity..i mean cant creat a hook or twist for previous sequence.I mean cant make a valid reason for going to the previous sequence.
Pls help me..give me an example..using 3/4 sequences..

Forty minutes?????

dear lin,
I am from Bangladesh.In our country 40 mins TV drama is very popular...

Forty minutes total or per episode?

I think we can assume that.

I think your key here is (and I'm making this assumption) that the scenes don't "run in reverse". They run normally, as though you took a regular script and cut the scenes up and-reshuffled them, right?

Therefore, the usual "cliff hanger" "turn the page" "stay tuned" mechanisms are intact. The first scene shows --obviously I'm confabulating here-- picnickers in the woods, being cute, poking around...and suddenly they see a corpse!!

Next scene ends maybe with the body being dropped in that location... etc. A later scene we see the corpse aliive and are starting to get the picture.

Dear seigfried,
Total 40 mins...

Dear lin,
lets work with ur example.picknikers dead body found.next scence the murder of picknikers..then next scene what they were doing before the murderer came..i mean they were singing, or simply gossiping....
listen its not flashback it will just go back...pls give me examples..pls write 3/4 sequences on picnikers...pls..

Yes i will run it in reverse..like water is not going to boys mouth from glass...it comes from boys mouth and fills the glass..

Know what, lindwos?

Advise if free, but I get paid for writing scenes for people. If you want samples to enlighten the discussion, write some yourself and put them up.

I like to keep things simple. Why not write it the usual way and then just tell the TV studio to run their camera backwards?