ringu

After a long search for Ringu i finally found it at the library, since none of the stores in town seemed to have it. Along with the sound included in the film they also used a lot of silence throughout the film. I think their use of silence in the film was a very effective use of suspense, because you never knew when something loud and creepy would happen.

Although I'm not really effected by scary movies they had some audio that was fairly creepy. The use of violin sounds mixed with some very industrial sounds created an audio space that give you an uncomfortable feeling. One sound in particular sounded much like the sound of dragging a pipe along concrete in a long corridor. It amazes me that just that sound can put you in that place even when the visuals on screen don't have anything to do with that space. the musical part of the film was very basic with just a few notes of a violin and some drums for punctuation.

The end of the movie had some sounds that didn't seem to fit very well. One of these sounds was the sound of the woman getting hit it the back of the head and falling into the well. The sound was kind of the typical punch sound and seemed kind of hokey, kind of mickey moused. the other that i noticed that wasn't very effective was when they were pushing the large slab off of the well and while pushing it, it sounded very heavy with the concrete scraping sound but when it hit the ground it didn't make much of any sound at all. This was kind of confusing because of its lack of sound in rendering its weight upon impact.

Last of all is that presence of the phone ringing throughout the film that also gave it it's creepyness. it was only creepy through its link to what you knew what was on the other end. this is also where they used silence effectively. They never had audio for what was being said when the person answered the phone when they were notified they were goiong to die, but when it was just another person they had audio for what they were saying. The lack of use of audio gives mystery to the movie, and mystery brings curiosity, and curioisity brings imagination, and imagination brings the worst one can think of.