Wilhelm Scream

The Wilhelm scream is a film and television stock sound effect that has been used in more than 200 movies, beginning in 1951 for the film Distant Drums.[1] The scream is often used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion. Most likely voiced by actor and singer Sheb Wooley, the sound is named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 western in which the character gets shot with an arrow. This was its first use from the Warner Bros. stock sound library, although The Charge at Feather River is believed to have been the third movie to use the effect

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Sound

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Editing

This trailer has lots of editing techniques.



Editing helps construct the narrative. We are so use to editing we barely even notice it. Editing is often invisible. Editing can be used to condense long, boring activities into quick bursts of visual information. The simplest edit is the cut, the term comes from back when they still used film and would cut it up and put the film together. In the assassination scene in North by North-West between Rodger Thornhill enters the taxi to when he looks out the window in the United Nations are 26 cuts. They are most frequent during the conversation so you can see their reactions. The pace of the editing can be used to create excitement and tension for example in the shower scene in Psycho and when Marion dies the pace slows down as if her life is draining away.

 

Types of editing

Dissolve: One scene dissolves into another, overlapping for a moment.

Fade out/in: One scene fades to black completely, then another fades in.

Wipes: One scene wipes across the screen, revealing or replacing the next one.

Iris: The next scene replaces the last by appearing from the centre like the iris of an eye.

Jump cuts: Two scenes that features a common element right after one another, so something stays the same but the rest changes. This is used for disorienting or comedic effect.

 

        

 

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