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| Tuesday, December 18 2007 | | News | National | World | Hotline | Opinion | Flip | Fun Stuff | Sports | |
 Close your ears!
In fact, you might find yourself glued to the cinema seat, waiting excitedly for the girls to be chased after and killed by the ghosts, again. Yup, Voice is the fourth film in the Korean high school horror series that started with the hit film Whispering Corridors in 1998. The other two films in the series – Memento Mori and Wishing Stairs – both made money at the box office. The series is successful because it is based on the concept that schools are the origin of all types of terror. Terror that resulted from sensitive high school students who are facing various conflicts in their lives. Voice tells about the identity crisis of adolescent female high school students. And since this is a horror flick, the producers came up with this cool idea of using the voice as the origin of horror. In this film, the voice is more than just a sound. It serves as a medium that derives horror and the film focuses on delivering terror that a ghost feels when its voice disappears. The story Young-un (Kim Ok-bin) is attacked by a supernatural force while practicing singing in her high school. Next day, she wakes up from a seeming trance. To her shock, she learns that she is dead and cannot leave the school grounds. She succeeds in communicating with her best friend Sunmin (Seo Ji-hye), a school DJ who can hear her voice. Aided by the school’s resident psychic girl Cho-ah (Cha Ye-ryun), Sun-min attempts to uncover the mystery behind Young-un’s death. The main cast This Korean high-school series has helped in launching the career of many fresh stars. Among the stars born from the past three movies are Choi Kang-hee, Kim Min-sun and Park Han-byul, just to name a few. Voice is expected to propel three new fresh talents to stardom. * Kim ok-bin as young-un Born in 1986. She had no acting career until she was cast for the role except a few appearances in music videos. Having been introduced into the entertainment business through a Ms. Pretty contest, she says, “I’m ready to die on the set,” which signifies her passion for acting. * Seo ji-hye as sun-min She was born in 1984. She’s become known for her appearances in Korean TV dramas and commercials. She’s bright, sociable, and considerate just like her character in the fi lm. She’s said to have eyes that can express both joy and sadness at the same time. * Cha ye-ryun as cho-ah Born in 1985. She’s been modeling for various TV commercials. She says she’s the biggest horror movie fan and couldn’t be happier when she was cast for her role in this fi lm. She’s beautiful in a fragile way, but very strong-minded. The idea of Voice First-time director Equan Choe came up with the concept of Voice while working as an assistance director on Whispering Corridors. “I thought about what it would be like if I made a horror film. And I came up with an idea to create a ghost that can’t be seen, but can be heard. Everybody sounds different, as they all look different. I expect those who watch this movie to pay more attention to the voice from inside of us, while trying to fi gure the mystery behind Young-un’s death in the movie,” he said. The sound of voice In Voice, the sound is imperative, since it tells about a dead high school student who can only be heard with her physical body gone. In most Korean productions, sound mixing is done during post-production, but for this film, sound samples were created during pre-production. The sound samples were created by BlueCap whose credits include Korean blockbusters such as Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Taegukgi. The most challenging part in creating the sound in Voice is to scare the audience using sounds that everybody is familiar with. Thus, artificial sounds were put to a minimum while natural sounds like chatters of girls between classes, the sound of students turning pages and the sound of jumping ropes in Physical Education class, were given creepy treatment to give the audience goose-bumps.  
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