USING SOUND TO TELL THE STORY

Another example, which uses offscreen sound to create a rising sense of unease in both main character and audience, is from an independent feature called The Passage, which was written and directed by Pat Cooper, one of the authors of this book. 

In the film, a ghost story, a writer called Michael Donovan has left his wife in New York and gone to a desolate part of Cape Cod to do research on 19th-century shipwrecks. He rents a handsome old cottage on a dune overlook- 

In the morning, MICHAEL at the dining table, typing from his notes. 

He looks around, then goes back to his work as THE SOUND DIES. 

THE RUSTLING FADES TO SILENCE as he gets up from the table and goes upstairs. 

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