Pokémon's Lord of Fear

Chapter 16 Kaluni's Gardevoir

After solving the lighting problem, the filming of the movie continued, and soon it came to a foreshadowing segment in the dead silence.

Jamie and his stepmother went up to meet Jamie's father. The scene looked very ordinary, but in order to set up the foreshadowing, there were special requirements for the sound recording.

"In the next paragraph, I hope that the voice of Jamie's father speaking for the first time can be heard on the stepmother's side." Teng Shu called out "cut" and then put forward his request.

"I understand. Do we need to plant the clue that Jamie's father is a puppet from here?" Kaluni was a little excited. She had read the script and naturally knew what Teng Shu's arrangement meant.

"Yes, so Jamie, when we are filming later, you have to turn your head to look at your stepmother when he speaks." Teng Shu continued to arrange some details. Here, the stepmother was actually speaking in ventriloquy.

If a reversal is to make the audience exclaim in amazement after watching it, then it must be arranged reasonably and there must be corresponding foreshadowing in the front. Teng Shu plans to rely on some tiny details to foreshadow that the protagonist's father has passed away.

Jamie's father wore an oxygen mask when he spoke, so his voice sounded a little strange, so the male protagonist didn't realize that when his father spoke, it was actually his stepmother who was speaking in ventriloquism.

At the same time, Teng Shu also arranged a very subtle recording detail. That is, after the stepmother took off Jamie's father's oxygen mask, if you listened carefully, you would hear a very slight sound of something scratching flesh.

This also foreshadows the detail that the protagonist's father is dead.

However, the audience may not be able to see it at first, which is also the result that Teng Shu wants. If the identities of the male protagonist's father and stepmother are revealed too early, the final sense of horror will be greatly reduced.

In fact, the movie Dead Silence is a very conventional horror movie at the beginning, until the final reversal scene appears, which makes people feel more and more creepy. At that moment, the audience will feel that the hero has fallen into Mary Shaw's trap from the very beginning. He has no way to resist, and all his struggles are just useless efforts under the gaze of the evil spirit.

Such despair can give a greater sense of terror.

But the plot here stuck Teng Shu for a long time, and almost the whole day was spent here.

The reason is also very simple.

"Ms. Kaluni, are you not very good at using puppets?" Teng Shu looked at Kaluni with a bit of a smile. He never expected that Kaluni would not be very good at using this carefully crafted puppet, that is, Jamie's father.

In pursuit of realism, Teng Shu did not use real actors from the very beginning. Instead, he had someone make a super-large puppet. It was exactly the same as a real person in every aspect, even with its internal organs. There was no visible difference at all. However, in order to add to the sense of fear, Teng Shu still left a slit on the back of the puppet.

And since this puppet is really a puppet, if you want it to perform more realistically, you naturally need to control it.

Originally, Teng Shu was going to let professionals handle this work remotely, but Kaluni wanted to give it a try. Teng Shu didn't mind. After all, the previous filming work had gone very smoothly, and it would indeed be more realistic with Kaluni controlling it.

But who knew that Kaluni still hadn't learned how to control it more like a puppet. "It's my problem," Kaluni blushed. It seemed that controlling a puppet was also a science. She had tried so many times but still couldn't do it.

"But it will definitely work this time, please wait a moment." Kaluni was very confident. Then Kaluni released a Gardevoir. Teng Shu was stunned for a moment after seeing it. He probably knew what Kaluni was going to do.

But isn’t this a bit exaggerated?

"My Gardevoir can control Psychic very well, so there won't be any particularly obvious color." Kaluni explained. Seeing this, Teng Shu did not object, but let Kaluni try it.

The result surprised Teng Shu a little bit. Kalini's Gardevoir was very good. Even though Kalini still had some problems in manipulating the doll, she was able to complete the whole scene easily with the help of Gardevoir.

After this attempt, I finally passed this segment.

It was getting dark at this time, and Teng Shu saw this and decided to try to finish filming the remaining clips directly. After that, Kaluni's stepmother's role would mainly focus on feeding and communicating with Jamie's father at night, answering the phone, and then the final revelation.

When the filming started, a lot of things happened. In order to preserve a single scene, Teng Shu repeated several shots, which meant that he had to take a break after finishing the dinner scene.

However, Teng Shu did not expect to finish filming today. Although this world has the help of Pokémon, some clips are very easy to shoot and do not even require special effects. For example, the scene where Mary Sho emerges from the face of the puppet can be shot directly by using a ghost-type Pokémon.

However, it would take several days to shoot all this content. The speed was faster today because Kaluni and the others have very good acting skills and can often get the scenes right in one take.

"The editing and dubbing work have to keep up with the pace. I want to finish the filming of Dead Silence as soon as possible." Teng Shu talked to Fawu beside him while watching the employees packing up their things.

The nature of this employee's job at Fawu is quite special. He does everything and is somewhat like an assistant.

"Okay, boss." Fawu agreed decisively, while Teng Shu was thinking about the plot to be filmed in the next few days.

In fact, compared to other movies, a horror film like Dead Silence with a small crew does not take a long time to shoot. In the previous life, Saw directed by James Wan only took 18 days to shoot. That is to say, if the actors' acting skills are good and the special effects and props can keep up, a low-budget horror film can be successfully shot in about half a month.

With the help of Pokémon in this world, Teng Shu felt that it would probably take him less than half a month to finish filming Dead Silence.

Half a month might even be a bit long. After all, the most important special effects part can be handled by the Ghost Pokémon. Teng Shu only needs to shoot the movie and then arrange for the Ghost Pokémon to perform those special effects shots.

In the Hoenn region, there is a Pokémon company that specializes in filming and special effects production. When the time comes, we just need to contact them to come over.

(End of this chapter)