After research into ‘The Woman in Black’ 2012 film trailer, it is apparent that tension and suspense have been built through the layering of sound. The aim of my ‘prequel’ trailer is to mimic this technique, however, I will initially base my sound on extracts of Susan Hill’s original book.
After reading the book, three quotations have become key influences in allowing me to construct my sound:
- “[Kipps] Now, out on those same marshes, the whole episode, or a ghost, a shadow, a memory of it, somehow happened again and again… but nothing could be seen, only heard.”
- “[Kipps] An event, and that a dreadful, tragic one, of many years ago, which had taken place and had been done with, was somehow taking place over and over again, repeating itself in some dimension other than the normal, present one…”
- “[Daily] You’ve gone through some rough seas… [Kipps] well, I’m in the calm after the storm now and there’s an end to it”
Using these three quotations, I would like to focus my sound piece on the initial story of the child (The Woman in Black’s son) drowning in the marsh, as well as integrate the key themes that I have discovered: repetition, the extraordinary in the everyday, and perplexity. I also aim to use these descriptions to later inform my imagery, again, focusing on these themes.
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Hill, S. (1998) The Woman in Black. New York: Vintage.