Reflections on Sound Design

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79p57JJrMwo

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INT. Location hotel - night

Danny rides his Fisher bike down a long, abandoned hallway. Passing cabnits and vending machines with only the sound of the tires rolling across the floor.

He reaches the end of the hallway and turns right. Now going down a short hallway in which the residents would stay.

Danny turns his bike to the left at the end of the short hallway. He stops immediatly at the sight of two twin girls standing at the other end. He sits and stares in fear at the girls at the end of the long hallway full of doors.

Twin Girls

(Gong Sounds)

"Hello Danny."

(Silence)

"Come play with us."

(Piano)

(Gong)


Danny continues to sit on his bike and stare back at the twin girls in fear.

TWIN GIRLS

"Come and play with us Danny."

(Piano)


A picture of the two girls bloody bodies flicker in and out.

TWIN GIRLS

"Forever..."

(Shreech)

"and ever...

(Shreech)


The picture of the two girls bloody bodies flashes again.

TWIN GIRLS

"and ever."

(Shreech)


The picture of the Two Girls bloody bodies flashes again.

Danny places both of his hands over his eyes to block his sight of the two girls.

(Loud Noise)


He holds his hands over his face for a brief moment, then lowers them. The girls are gone and the hallway appears to be empty.

(Silence)


Danny continues to sit in complete silence, staring down the empty hallway.

Danny

"Tony, I'm scared..."

Danny then lifts his hand and sticks out his index finger. He bends it and begins to immitate his fingre talking.

He speaks to himself in a low, evil voice. Continuing to stare at his finger.

DANNY

"Remember what Mr. Howland says... its just like pictures in a book, Danny."

(Shreek)

"It isn't real."

(Shreek)


The end










In the scene I have chosen, the beginning shows a young kid, Danny, riding his Fisher bike down a hallway. The listening mode changes from the casual in the beginning to referential. The only sound used in the beginning is casual or literal sound. This is the tires of the bike rolling across the hard floor. This sound continues until he reaches the hallway with the two twin girls. Danny then stops and you hear the sound of a gong. This is a referential sound because it is used to draw fear in the audience. The time of this gong sound is loud and fast. It is a sudden and seemingly loud noise after dead silence. This is used to spike the adrenalin of the viewer. After Danny places his hands over his eyes, a quite sound ques and drags out. It lasts as long as his face is covered and then starts to rise in volume as his hands drop. The recognition of time passing is incorporated into the viewer when they hear this sound.