screenwriter mystery

Chapter 128 Editing 【Subscription】

"Mary Shaw, Mary Shaw, heed my call..."

The monotonous sound of soul-calling prayers kept ringing in the abandoned wooden house.

In the dim wooden house, Jamie and his party held hands around the dining table, summoning Mary Shaw's dead soul under the faint light of the candle.

On the dining table, the flickering flames of the candles cast light and dark shadows on the puppets.

Under the reflection of the flickering fire, the lifeless and rough face of the clockwork puppet seemed to become a little strange and inexplicable.

"..."

The entire spirit-calling ceremony lasted about 5 minutes, but apart from the crackling sound of burning candles, nothing happened in the whole wooden house.

Repeating the soul-calling prayers in his mouth, Jamie opened his closed eyes slightly, glanced at the impatient crowd in front of him, and turned his head to look at the camera that was still taking pictures. Jamie gritted his teeth and let go of his grip. Seeing Sean's palm, he reached out to the puppet sitting in the center of the candle.

However, Jamie, who made this move, didn't see it, the moment he let go.

On the rough face of the clockwork puppet, in the lifeless eye sockets, the wooden eyes rolled slightly.

pat!

The wind-up puppet on the dining table was pushed down by hand, and there was a crisp knocking sound in the empty wooden house.

In the next second, Jamie exclaimed, as if he didn't know what happened.

"Puppet, the toy puppet in the candle moved!"

Hearing Jamie's shout, Laura, who was already nervous because of fear, immediately let out a cry of panic.

Accompanied by Laura's screams, everyone who was performing the soul-calling ceremony opened their eyes one after another. They looked at the puppet that fell in the center of the candle, and looked up at its pair of godless eyes, even if they always thought that Mary Shaw's horror Mark, whose nursery rhyme was nothing more than a lie, also turned a bit livid on his dark face.

On the side, a DV camera with a flashing red light captured everything that happened in the living room.

……

"You shouldn't have done that just now, Jamie!"

Back in the car, Sean looked at the people who were still in shock, especially Laura, whose red eyes were obviously crying from fright, and couldn't help saying something to Jamie who was beside him.

During the spiritual summoning ceremony in the living room just now, although Jamie's movements were secretive, it was obviously impossible to hide from Sean who shook hands with him.

"I know it's just a surprise for this shoot."

Facing Sean's accusation, Jamie said nonchalantly while holding the rough clockwork puppet he found in Mary Shaw's house.

"Otherwise, just based on the footage we took during the spirit exploration process, there is no useful footage at all, such as horror nursery rhymes, Mary Shaw's abandoned residence, maybe what Mark said is right, it is just a lie , Fortunately, I still swear to believe all this, and ran over to shoot the video of Tan Ling!"

Thinking of the period of time I spent trying my best to find information about Mary Shaw, I felt as if I was possessed by a demon.

As a result, all that was obtained were the interior fragments of some abandoned wooden houses.

"However, you shouldn't deliberately push this puppet down when you're summoning the soul."

His gaze fell on the clockwork puppet in Jamie's hands, and Sean's tone couldn't help but aggravate.

"As I said, it's all about the effect."

Originally, Jamie didn't pay too much attention to what happened in the soul-calling ceremony, but Xiao En's repeated accusations undoubtedly made him a little bit angrier.

"What are you talking about, Sean..."

However, at this moment, Susan, who heard the quarrel between the two, reacted.

She looked at the clockwork puppet in Jamie's hand, and said coldly, "Did you push down the puppet in the spiritual summoning ceremony just now? You're disgusting, Jamie!"

"When my video becomes popular on YouTube, I'll see if you still say that."

A filming of ghost hunting broke up because of Jamie's selfish behavior.

Jamie himself, however, was unimpressed.

……

Late at night, at home in New York.

The clockwork puppet brought out from Maryshaw's cabin was randomly discarded on the bed.

The puppet turned its head, its lifeless eyes stared at Jamie who was engrossed in front of the computer without blinking.

"There should be a little soundtrack here, and here..."

In front of the computer, Jamie was intensively editing the video material shot in the DV camera, although he swore to the camera during the shooting that there would be no editing.

However, such words are purely lies used to deceive those naive audiences and earn clicks.

Facing a section of the ghost hunting scene in the video, Jamie introduced a terrifying sound effect. Jamie frowned and cut some scenes of Susan, then nodded in satisfaction, and pressed the play button of the video to watch the scene. Although there is no horror element in the short section of spirit detection effect from the screen, it feels a little scary when paired with the weird music.

Appreciating the effect of his shooting, Jamie showed a smile on his face in front of the computer, and then made a series of editing of the shooting materials in the computer, and finally came to the most critical part of the shooting, he took everyone to the living room to continue Shots of the spiritual ceremony.

In the video, the blurred lens, the flickering candles, and the soul-calling prayers of the crowd, even Jamie would not be able to pick out too many faults if he only captured this small segment of the scene.

When the shooting scene in the camera, it keeps playing until there is a clip of him reaching out and pushing the puppet down.

Only then did Jamie click the pause button on the editing software, and said to himself.

"This shot must be cut."

After some familiar operations, I cut out the scene where I did it myself, and modified the time at the top of the video.

Jamie clicked the play button and watched the clip several times to confirm that there would be no omissions or mistakes, and then he let out a long sigh of relief.

Twisting his sore neck, his eyes inadvertently fell to a strange place in this short video.

"Wait a minute, the puppet's eyes are facing this direction?"

Looking at the slightly upward eyes of the clockwork puppet in the video, Jamie was puzzled.

Reach out, click the mouse, and replay the screen of this short video.

I saw that in the video shot, the eyes of the puppet, which was originally motionless and lifeless, moved up silently with Laura's scream.

"how can that be?!"

Watch the moving eyes of the puppet in the video footage.

In front of the computer, a bone-chilling chill rushed over Jamie's forehead in an instant, making his scalp numb.

Crunch, crunch—

And at this time.

Behind Jamie, there was the sound of a clockwork twisting.

(End of this chapter)