"This shot was taken at a street opera performance during Hungry Ghost Month while filming our movie A MONTH OF HUNGRY GHOSTS. Some people believe that ghosts and spirits reside under the street opera stages. The "voice" was discovered later in the editing of the film. Oddly, the voice is in English, but the play was in Hokkien Chinese.


MORE ON THIS CLIP: This clip is an outtake from the raw footage and will not be used in its entirety in the film. The "voice" was discovered during post-production when I sampled the background audio from the original shot and layed it under another shot in the editing timeline. Playing the edited sequence back, I noticed the "voice" and then adjusted the audio levels to hear it more clearly. That's when I first heard "take a seat." Ironically, the sequence in which this audio was "accidentally" merged with in the edit was a shot of the empty chairs that are set aside for the "good brothers" (the ghosts.) It was such a strange coincidence that I left it in the final edit of the film, although it is very subtle and will not be easily noticed."