Blog post #3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZuwp-xjGI&sns=em


The movie Dead Silence (2007) is horror film about a man who's wife had been killed. He returns to his hometown to search for answers to his wife murder. He is soon linked to the ghost of a murdered woman and her ventriloquist. I felt that the scene I chose has made a significant contribution to the storytelling and the feel of the piece. This old man is telling his experience with this ghostly woman (Mary) and her ventriloquist (Billy) when he was a young boy. The scene is immediately switched to a flash back into the 1920s where you get a sense of what era it was taking place in. The ventriloquist and this woman have an act on stage where they have jokes, etc. When she looks for the doll he is hiding out in the back, when watching, the sound effects give you a feeling that Billy is behind you. The doll plays a significant roll into editing because the people on set have to match the sounds to the dolls mouth moving. Also, if you look closer you see Billy's eyes move very slowly when the boy calls out in the crowd that Billy is fake. Billy's eyes begin to move very slow where it makes the scene feel more dramatic and intense. One might think his eyes are actually real this scene and something is about to happen. This scene attempts to make Billy come across as a real boy and that Mary is not doing his voice for him. So when Billy talks, the camera placed on both of them so you see that Mary is not doing his voice for him and you can get a sense of realness. Also, specifically the shooting of the film takes place at all different angles so you get a sense of where the setting is. For example, one shot is behind the shoulders of Mary and Billy so one can see how it would be if you were on stage with them and everyone was looking at you. I think this movie is very well done and this scene is a perfect example of why editing is important to all movies.