Voices (Sources of Inspiration)

Sources Of Inspiration: Voices

Dubbing an actor's voice with an alternative, often used for characters during possession and usually with a more sinister tone to increase fear.

(This could be beneficial for us to use if we chose possession as a focus to easily create a differentiation between the two speakers inside the body and also to allow the evil itself to address the characters without any confusion of who is speaking. This also acts as a device to increase fear as the voices chosen are usually deep and unsettling, highly in contrast to the previous.)

Often within horror, the evil is able to communicate with the victims through an item or a location and their voice is heard as whispering.

(A whispering voice can connote sinister intentions and by using many different whispering voices at once and overlapping them, it can isolate the victim from everyone else around. This technique can also effectively be used to signify no hope of escaping as once the evil gets to your mind, it can consume you. In terms of production of our own opening scene, this technique would be easily to duplicate as it could be added in as diegetic sound during the editing stage of production.)

Transmitted communications causing speech to cut out and be received in chunks often used to signify severe danger from the other end.

(This technique when used with a long cut out of silence causes the audience to be on-edge anticipating what will happen next, focusing entirely on sound. This would be useful for us as it would allow us to increase the audience's involvement within the scene and acts as a reminder that they are only communicating through technology and now, they cannot be helped.)