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Well folks, here it is…my first excerpt from a novel (aside from my Battlestar Galactica adaptation of one of my own fanfictions). Â
This scene was adapted from William Peter Blatty's “The Exorcist” novel. One certainly gains a new understanding of the differences and needs between a novel and an adapted screenplay.
This scene as shot in the movie was only two to three minutes long.  The scene I did, as excerpted from the novel runs close to 10 minutes.
I had to take a few creative liberties when I realized that there was a couple of things I failed to add, because I failed to read the narrative text more closely…however, I think they are minor, overlookable things. Overall, I think the effect comes across alright. I added in some sound effects from the movie to give the scene just a little more ambience (and for technical reasons.)  I did both the voices of Father Damien Karras and the demon Pazuzu, and Burke Dennings.
This took me a couple of days to put together…I had to rebuild the sets after my file (which I used to create my tribute trailer) got corrupted.  I just completed final mixdown at 7:30AM 24 NOV. 2010.
As always, I hope you'll enjoy this and have as much fun with it as I had putting it together. 🙂
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I did enjoy this, Steve. Very interesting. The effort you've put in is evident and hearing the dialogue from the novel as opposed to the film is always a nice change. Do you plan on making more, if time permits?
Most kind. Thank you both. 🙂
Yes, I do plan to do more…..I'm going to do the spiderwalk scene at some point.
I'm glad this seems to have gone over so well. (And thank Sofia for the inspiration. :) )
Hi Steve, I am in Italy just now and I will watch your work as soon I come back … It has been a hard week … “see” you soon to everybody
Hi, Steve!
It's amazing! How did you manage to do the demon's voice? it sounds so creepy!
BTW, do you have the audio tapes of Blatty reading the novel? He makes one powerful, creepy demon as well!  Â
Sofia said:
Hi, Steve!
It's amazing! How did you manage to do the demon's voice? it sounds so creepy!
BTW, do you have the audio tapes of Blatty reading the novel? He makes one powerful, creepy demon as well!  Â
Most kind, Sofia, thank you. 🙂
I didn't do anything special to my voice (except at the very end when the demon is speaking backwards…the last second and a half I applied some reverb and echo effect).  Otherwise, I just spoke and lowered my vocal tone and made it as gravelly and sinister as I could. Father Karras was hard to impersonate because his New York accent is so subtle, so I thought, well, I'll just run with my regular voice, and hope I do a good job.
I heard Mr. Blatty reading an excerpt from his book in a documentary, but I've never heard his take on the demon. 🙂
Father Bowdern said:
Sofia,
I love it when Blatty imitates Regan on the audiobook!
Father Bowdern
What about Steve's voice as Karras/Burke and the Demon? I thought he was incredible… Â
Sofia said:
Steve Dunlap said:
Most kind, Sofia, thank you. 🙂
I didn't do anything special to my voice
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Well, you sure sounded sinister!!! I'll use your voice over when I get to that scene in the sims. 😀 If you don't mind, of course…
BTW, I finally finished editing the trip to Washington with the sims:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrT7Hf2EsNY
I really wish there was an American woman and child willing to to do the voice-overs for Chris & Regan…
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Are you working on any other scene from the book, at the moment?
Most kinda again, Sofia. :) I'll be happy to help with the demon voice work when you get around to that. Or, if what I've done in the excerpt is good enough, feel free to sample from that.
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I do plan on doing other scenes. I was going to do the spiderwalk scene, and am still going to…I just have to get really convincing female voices. I have software that will allow me to make my voice sound like a woman's/girl's…but it'll take some tweaking. 🙂
If this scene had been kept in the movie, it would have made the film heart wrenching.There were moments in the novel that I remember were very emotional.This was one of those scenes.The other that I remember was near the end when Chris was reading a card that Regan had given her with the phrase, “…all the prettiest things” while the mayhem was going on upstairs.Chris was crying inconsolably as if Regan were on her deathbed.
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