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media type="custom" key="5523963" Credits: The sound comes from three different sources Text:
 * FINAL**
 * White Noise (2005)
 * The Crackle (XB) Number Station (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLCjYtq4H9o)
 * Chernobyl Journal: The Sounds (http://timmsuess.com/chernobyl-journal/chernobyl-journal-the-sounds/)
 * The Secret of Childhood by Dr. Maria Montessori
 * Lecture given by Dr. Rita Shaefer Zener

My goal with this project was to take the cliches of thriller movies and ghost stories and apply them to something typographic. The type is a personification of very traditional apparitions, where it represents part of the deceased, like a voice or memory, but never the whole thing (which in this case would be a book. There are no haunted books flying around here.) While the background of this story changed a few times between starting and finishing, the concept did not, which I am pleased with. I think the sound in the video helps the concept a lot, but without it I would still be able achieve a similar effect, just with less jumpiness due to sudden loud noises. What challenged me the most was getting the right pacing for the text and film so that it created some tension and was still relatively readable. I feel that the pacing I achieved fit with my concept, but it was at the sacrifice of some readability in certain places. However, the lack of being able to fully comprehend a couple of sentences doesn't completley undermine the video because I did want to mimic "hauntings" which are never meant to be fully comprehensible anyway.

Second draft, I made the type more readable and continued to add type to the end of the video. media type="youtube" key="r_DhjLMiBYU" height="344" width="425"
 * Text on the first scene with the door still needs to be added
 * The last sentence has to be animated properly
 * The shot of outside with the windows has to be either be cut or have more text added becuase it's a long period of just walking it seems
 * Some of the sentences sound awkward so I'll be going back and changing a few words so they flow together better
 * Sound has to be added

Draft with text (missing last 25 seconds). The part with the door is very temporary until I figure out how to create random letter particles or something similar. Also text has to be added to the metal door. What has to be looked at again is how long the text stays on screen and how light/dark it is becuase it is almost impossible to read at some points. On one hand this contributes to the fact that the words should act as apparitions which you never fully see/understand, but for the project I think they should be slightly more legible

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The context of my story changed a little bit, the text is taken from a book called The Secret of Childhood, and by using the footage I have and how I'll treat the text, I hope to create an eerie atmosphere. The book will act as a journal as sorts beloning to a scientist and it has been forgotten about until now etc.

Here is some of the text: code Dr. Montessori was convinced, from a lifetime of scientific observation, that in the child there are laws of growth in character and disposition as marked as those in its physical life; that adults generally fail to appreciate these laws and force their own ideas on it. This results in oppression of the child's deepest drives and its mind is throw into a confusion, and revolts through manifestations of naughtiness, hysterical crying and sulking. A childhood so full of repression develops into an adulthood full of complexes. Dr. Montessori's main theme in this book is, in effect, 'Find the secret of childhood, and the whole disposition of the child changes. It truly becomes "Father of Man" and achieves a superior, saner, psychological development.'

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Film, still undecided about the pacing of it. media type="custom" key="5423802" (I forgot to take out the audio, it will change with the final of course)

Process photos

Storyboard



This is where I'm filming: The Loyal True Blue and Orange Home, it used to be an orphanage. The rooms on the third floor are terrifying (pictures and rough footage to come next week)
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Prologue ** **(OLD)** It was the end of first term, students at the boarding school were looking forward to going home and visiting family and friends and not having to think about schoolwork. However, one grade 4 English teacher was not going to let his students minds idle just becuase it was Christmas time. He assigned everyone a poem from Wordsworth and gave them each a book of his poetry. They were to hand in a report when they got back. Grumbling as they made their way out of the classroom two students looked down at the books they had received and turning to each other, decided they were not going to do this, it was completely unfair after all. They formulated a sketchy plan and agreed to meet on the third floor, after school, in the empty attic where they would toss the books. After wards they would simply tell their teacher the books had been stolen. The bell rang and one of the two students headed towards the third floor, she didn't see her friends and after waiting for a bit thought she had bailed. She went up to the attic angry that her friend had not pulled through. //This is where the film will start.//

//Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.// Specifically Lucky's "monologue" which is too long to type out, but it consists of one long sentence that at first appears to be nothing but nonsense but if you go further there are bits and pieces of hidden meaning. I would like to use parts of his dialogue as the text in project 1, where the thoughts coupled with fragmented imagery forms a sort of "representation of subconscious"...
 * Music and words that are inspiring me so far.**

//The Turn of the Screw by Henry James// // "Throughout his career James was attracted to the ghost story genre. However, he was not fond of literature's stereotypical ghosts, the old-fashioned 'screamers' and 'slashers'. Rather, he preferred to create ghosts that were eerie extensions of everyday reality—"the strange and sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and easy,"" (http://www.henryjames.org.uk/prefaces/text12_inframe.htm) //

Another idea is to play upon peoples fascination with the paranormal and create an atmosphere that looks haunted, where the apparitions are actually just pieces of words and sentences of the departed not physical representations of them. It would be interesting to juxtapose a setting that appears normal (a well lit study room for example) with type that appears in corners or odd places like a ghost might.

//Steve Reich and his album Different Trains.// Don't mind so much the imagery, just the music, title of the piece is After the War media type="youtube" key="oucd_Qv8SKo" height="344" width="425"