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Originally posted by HappyCamper
Watch a horror movie, that you know there are parts in which you brace yourself for the scare. Usually at the moment of or just a fraction before the actual scare the audio-track changes. I bet you even though you brace for the scare, the sound will still startle you.
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While editing a movie I'll go over the same scene over and over and over. It's a tedious process we all have to go through (a little less with digital editing, but it's still one of the hazards of the job). Anyway, when I leave the door open to my office my dog can hear every edit I make. In the last shot I edited for Death Plots, our Samantha character screams when she sees the Grimm Reaper at the foot of her bed. This girl has a blood curdling, ear percing scream. It made me jump the first time I heard it played back at 3AM. Well, my dog would go nuts everytime I would play the footage 5 or 10 seconds before the scream. She knew what was coming and didn't want to hear it. Now, when I play the movie for people, she leaves the room when she hears the lead in to that scene. Kind of like a Pavlovian response BEFORE the bell rings...and scary for the dog.