flashbacks/flashforwards

In out opening 2 minutes we have planned to include some flashbacks/flashforwards (as Its only 2 minutes into a film, the audience will not know, and will keep them engaged) Rory would of been having these and he doesnt know what they are trying to tell him, they are reocurring but he can never make out who or where? If we were doing the whole film we probs would them of as flashforwards, and the film would go to them later in the film when they are actually happening..

When writing for an audience, keep in mind they want you to show them what's going on. They're not fond of being told a story. Two great ways of illustrating the past and future events in your story are through flashbacks and flash forwards, respectively.

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FlashBacks
A good flashback example can be seen in the recent film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Flashbacks throughout tell the audience of the kind of relationship they shared. There were good times and bad times, but perhaps most memorable of all is a flashback example involving Sarah and her old memories of Peter.

In less than a minute, the film communicates to its audience where Sarah's feelings for Peter are, even though outwardly she shows no signs of the reality. Thus, the flashback example is relevant and triggered by something in the present.
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Flash Forwards

In Stephen King's The Dead Zone (novel, film, TV series), the protagonist acquires the gift of predicting the future after a nearly fatal car crash. When he makes physical contact, he is able to flash forward and see a person's future.

The flash forward of a nuclear event becomes a plot point on which the rest of the character's path must travel.

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To Note...

Whether it's a flashback or a flash forward, the information that comes to light must be triggered in the present by something relevant...and the information either literary device provides must be essential to the audience's understanding of the story.