Tuesday, February 16, 2010
*Disclaimer: As is everything that I post in this blog, this is an assignment. If it wasn't assigned I wouldn't do this sort of thing. I don't like the idea of working for target audiences (until I'm actually working in the industry). I want to make things that I like and not direct them towards others (for now).
Target Audience
Target Audience
- Gender: Male/Female
- Age: 16-35
- Interests: Film/Video, Trillers, Horrors, Mystery, Suspense, Youtube
- Habits: Youtube browsing, forum browsing, social networking
- Other forms of entertainment: Video games, Thriller/horror movies
- Spare time activities: All of the above
- Things they buy: All of the above
- Where they live: Middle class area, Suburbia
- Income: Middle class
- Maximum education: College
Alex is a college student. He had always been very interested in film. One summer, Alex decided not to take any classes and to begin working on his first film. He had saved up all the money and done all the research. He hired some of his friends to help and they all got started. The title of his first movie would be "Marble Hornets."
One afternoon, Alex gathered some of his actors and crew and they went to a park that he and his good friend Jay had scouted. Everything seemed perfect so they began to shoot. About midway through the shoot, they noticed a tall, rather slender man in a black suit standing in the distance. They couldn’t make out his face and no one seemed to know him so they kept shooting. Alex became concerned that the man would spoil some of the shots by being in the frame so shouted from the group and asked him to leave. The man remained absolutely still.
The next night, Alex was at home alone. He turned all the lights off in his house just before going to bed but then he heard a sound. It was a strange sound, an animal maybe. Being the film buff that he was, he grabbed his camera and began to shoot. He went from window to window in his dark house and saw nothing. Just as he started to put the camera down, the noise sounded again but was louder. Alex became frightened. He kept filming and again paced his house, peeling down the blinds and looking out his windows. Finally, he looked out the window adjacent to his front porch, and there he was, the man from the park, staring blindly at Alex’s porch light.
Alex gave up on his project. Alex gave all of the film footage to his good friend and coworker Jay on one condition; that Jay never mention to Alex again. One day, Jay went looking through all of this footage and noticed all of these odd occurrences. Jay too became weary and seemingly on-edge. He began filming everything just like Alex. He even filmed himself while he slept. Jay checked the footage of his sleeping every other day. One day he was looking through the footage and noticed that he was out of bed for about 3 hours but had no knowledge of the event ever occurring. The next day, there was a tape left in his mail box. When he played the tape it was footage of Jay sitting in his hallway with his eyes rolled back in a trance. Suddenly, the “slender man” crept around the corner of the hallway, in front of Jay, and into the camera.
Alton Sheppard, 31
• Name: Alton Sheppard
• Death: October 2, 1929, Winberg went missing the day after his 31st birthday. He had a strange fascination with film and often shot footage in the heavily wooded area behind his home. A common suspicion was that the woods were haunted by demons that trapped their victims using the trees. Reports of people “stretched to the brink of dismemberment [by the arms and legs] and left to die” were made. No one knows the true cause of death for no one was courageous enough to go after Sheppard.
• Birth: October 1, 1898 in Marble Valley, Virginia
• Occupations: The Sheppards were tailors, as was Alton, yet Alton was a film enthusiast.
• Family/Background: Alton and his family, back to his great grandfather, were a quiet people. All they knew was tailoring. Alton though, had a strong passion for film of which was frowned upon. His family didn’t “believe” in it (mostly because it was a distraction from his work). Secretly, a camera found its way into Alton’s possession and from then on he devoted his free time to film. He found a lot of inspiration out of the heavily wooded area surrounding his home and spent a lot of time there. After awhile, Alton changed. He became uneasy and filmed himself and his surroundings every time he could. He used all of his money on film. Near the end of his life, his family practically became afraid of Alton and his moody behavior.
• Funeral arrangements: As sad as it was to lose Alton, his family didn’t believe that they lost him on October 2, 1929. They lost him months before that. They didn’t have a funeral since they didn’t have a body. Instead they simply framed a photo of Alton when Alton was Alton and not the monster he became. They would remember him as he was. A tailor’s son.
• Death: October 2, 1929, Winberg went missing the day after his 31st birthday. He had a strange fascination with film and often shot footage in the heavily wooded area behind his home. A common suspicion was that the woods were haunted by demons that trapped their victims using the trees. Reports of people “stretched to the brink of dismemberment [by the arms and legs] and left to die” were made. No one knows the true cause of death for no one was courageous enough to go after Sheppard.
• Birth: October 1, 1898 in Marble Valley, Virginia
• Occupations: The Sheppards were tailors, as was Alton, yet Alton was a film enthusiast.
• Family/Background: Alton and his family, back to his great grandfather, were a quiet people. All they knew was tailoring. Alton though, had a strong passion for film of which was frowned upon. His family didn’t “believe” in it (mostly because it was a distraction from his work). Secretly, a camera found its way into Alton’s possession and from then on he devoted his free time to film. He found a lot of inspiration out of the heavily wooded area surrounding his home and spent a lot of time there. After awhile, Alton changed. He became uneasy and filmed himself and his surroundings every time he could. He used all of his money on film. Near the end of his life, his family practically became afraid of Alton and his moody behavior.
• Funeral arrangements: As sad as it was to lose Alton, his family didn’t believe that they lost him on October 2, 1929. They lost him months before that. They didn’t have a funeral since they didn’t have a body. Instead they simply framed a photo of Alton when Alton was Alton and not the monster he became. They would remember him as he was. A tailor’s son.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Short Story Assignment
Alex is a college student. He had always been very interested in film. One summer, Alex decided not to take any classes and to begin working on his first film. He had saved up all the money and done all the research. He hired some of his friends to help and they all got started. The title of his first movie would be ‘Marble Hornets.”
One afternoon, Alex gathered some of his actors and crew and they went to a park that he and his good friend Jay had scouted. Everything seemed perfect so they began to shoot. About midway through the shoot, they noticed a tall, rather slender man in a black suit standing in the distance. They couldn’t make out his face and no one seemed to know him so they kept shooting. Alex became concerned that the man would spoil some of the shots by being in the frame so shouted from the group and asked him to leave.
The next night, Alex was at home alone. He turned all the lights off in his house just before going to bed but then he heard a sound. It was a strange sound, an animal maybe. Being the film buff that he was, he grabbed his camera and began to shoot. He went from window to window in his dark house and saw nothing. Just as he started to put the camera down, the noise sounded again but was louder. Alex became frightened. He kept filming and again paced his house, peeling down the blinds and looking out his windows. Finally, he looked out the window adjacent to his front porch, and there he was, the man from the park, staring blindly at Alex’s porch light.
Alex gave up on his project. Alex gave all of the film footage to his good friend and coworker Jay. One day, Jay went looking through all of this footage and noticed all of these odd occurrences. Jay too became weary and seemingly on-edge. He began filming everything just like Alex. He even filmed himself while he slept. Jay checked the footage of his sleeping every other day. One day he was looking through the footage and noticed that he was out of bed for about 3 hours but had no knowledge of the event ever occurring. The next day, there was a tape left in his mail box. When he played the tape it was footage of Jay sitting in his hallway with his eyes rolled back in a trance. Suddenly, the “slender man” crept around the corner of the hallway, in front of Jay, and into the camera.
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