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in this sequence, as well as the continuation of visual mobility after Tina is killed all
indicate, in spite of presenting a mock eye/camera shot, the sequence presented from
Jason’s perspective.
While other sequences in The Final Chapter also utilize unverified diegetic
sound and editing to communicate death and mutilation, their design largely
replicates these sequences as well as others in previous films. 10
These sequences,
while retaining some similarities to design presented in earlier films, demonstrate a
significant development in the advancement in the usage of editing and unverified
diegetic sound, an evolution which continues throughout the series.
Perspective Shifts Within a Sequence, Omniscience, and Witnesses
Instances of perspective shifts have already been discussed, particularly with
the deaths of the boy counsellor in Friday the 13 th and Michael in The New Blood.
The incorporation of the whole aesthetic design in terms of cinematography, sound
and editing in order to create shifts in perspective demonstrates an intensified form
of aesthetic intricacy and complexity, and has developed over the course of the
series. However, as the series progressed, sequences involving omniscient third
person and diegetic third person witnesses to events were also incorporated, both as
intricate to fluid perspective shifts within sequences as well as isolated instances of
third person viewing.
The most unique usage of unverified diegetic sound and editing in a death
sequence in Jason Lives! is that involving Paula. In the lead up to her actual death,
she is shown in medium shots and close up shots as she moves around her cabin
10 For example, Sara’s death is aesthetically executed in a similar way to the final sequence discussed
in Friday the 13 th Part III 3-D.