Stephen King novels

Another source of inspiration that came to our mind regarding writing wonderful narratives is Stephen King. The way his novels depict a character and the way he describes a certain scene or situation makes you feel immersed into his own world. That's one of the main reasons why he is one the most successful suspense writers in the world.

Carrie

Bag of Bones

Dolores Claiborne

Dreamcatcher

The Girl who loved Tim Gordon

Misery

The Shining

Tommyknockers

The Shining and Tommyknockers in particular, are two films that we're going to take some things from.

Young, innocent girls portrayed as something fearful.

A nursery rhyme, something supposedly sweet but somehow becomes frightening.

Spooktacular Event Experience

As planned, we all drove to Kells for the Spooktacular Event as part of our research. The place was well done up and it was pitch black everywhere. We had to enter the tunnel and we split ourselves into two groups to make the experience more terrifying. We had to enter a tunnel where we literally had to feel our way into so we would know where to go. The space was very tight and enclosed. Good thing, I had the camcorder with me so I used the night vision to see where we were going. They had good props and the feel and design of the place was indeed spooky. After the tunnel, we had to go into the forest.

10 minutes into the forest, we heard a scream and the lights were out!!!

It seemed as if we were in a slasher film and it was when the staff wearing freaky outfits came to us and asked us to go with them, we realized the power was cut. So unfortunately, we had to go home. Looking forward to next year though.

The video will be uploaded soon. 

Dead Frontier Online Game

Here is a zombie-killing online game we stumbled upon.

Our narrative is still focused on psychological however, we decided to put up this game to broaden our perspectives as to the other types of horror.

Here's a short review of the game

By Lynda Mc Donald 

Edited & published by Michael Hartman

Dead Frontier is a free browser-based survival-horror MMO. For the first time in a web-browser players have the option of surviving in a post-apocalyptic world plagued with zombies either single-handedly or in multi-player mode.

Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/mmo/reviews/46437.aspx#ixzz13ahgnn6A

The answer to why people hate

"The common thread that weaves violent political movements together is fear. It is not the only motivating factor behind political violence, nor necessarily the most obvious, but it is virtually always there. Whenever we ask why people hate, or why they are willing to kill or die for a cause, the answer is invariably fear." -- James F. Mattil


 

Meet the Team

Project Manager & Storyboard Artist 

Justine Gika

Visual Director/Designer/Camera
Claire O'Neill

 

  
Programmer/Camera work
Conor Moore

Programmer/Blogger/Photography
Rochelle Lazaro

  

 

The Most Terrifying Experience in Ireland

Haunted Spooktacular in Kells, Meath is opening its doors again to everyone looking for a scary experience this coming Halloween.

The Event

Fear surrounds the Grove, it goes beyond your imagination. Not every soul has made it to the next crossing. At the Grove, the dead still walk. We have gone over the edge with the biggest and scariest Halloween ever. Screams come above, below, and all around you. At the Grove we have brought the fear level to your ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE.

This is not to be missed.

This unique experience is more gruesome than any other year. We focus on your worst nightmare, that's why we are different.

Are you brave enough to face the Eerie Graveyard, Tunnel of Horrors, Haunted Woodland Walk & much much more.
And Remember this is not for Children.

 

Events like these require thorough planning and we'd like to experience for ourselves if it really is as terrifying as they're claiming it to be. The first week of class we were asked what we wanted the audience to feel during or after interacting with our project. We all got together because we had a common ground. We wanted the users to feel afraid, uneasy and overwhelmed. The event organizers had the same idea so perhaps we'd see for ourselves if they got what they were aiming for. It'll also broaden our perspectives on other ways to approach the project and maybe it'll give us an idea on our narrative.

Goosebumps

When we were younger, we were big fans of the Goosebumps books and tv series. In some series of the books, you had the privilege to choose your own adventure. We were around 7 or 8 years old back then so this made it scarier for us.

Goosebumps is one of our main inspirations.

A short narrative... not purely aimed at kids. Believable or convincing enough for a person to feel like he/she IS the main character--that whatever it is that we show will affect his/her way of thinking.

Goosebumps website/Games section

Goosebumps Horrorland

Goosebumps website/TV Series

Night of the Living Dummy. This scared us a lot when we were little. It put us off dolls, dummies, toys and the like.

Fear and the Brain

"Fear is a vital response to physical and emotional danger—if we couldn't feel it, we couldn't protect ourselves from legitimate threats. But often we fear situations that are in no way life-or-death, and thus hang back for no good reason. Traumas or bad experiences can trigger a fear response within us that is hard to quell. Yet exposing ourselves to our personal demons is the best way to move past them."-http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/fear

Find out the science of fear: what triggers it, the way it affects us and how we remember fearful events.

Fewdio: We create nightmare

Conor stumbled upon them ages ago. They create short stories, make it into a short film and post them up on youtube.

Here is one of their works which we think should be applauded for its style.

Would you rather have knowledge or happiness? Faith or certainty? Ten thousand dollars or proof that Hell exists? 

 

For our project, we're thinking of creating an audio visual experience wherein the user can immerse himself/herself into. So we're researching on different approaches on narratives.

Asylum 626

Check storyboard

Check out site here

This is a sequel of Hotel 626. Another brilliant work from Snack Strong Production. Not as interactive as Hotel 626 but still gives the same experience.

storyboard

Log in screen

Hotel 626

A Snack Strong Production
 
Play it here
hotel626

 
Found this website in 2008. This is one of our inspirations.


If you haven't played it yet, it's your chance to do so now.



 

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Just beginning...

The first week of classes about three weeks ago, we were informed that we had to form an idea as to what we wanted the audience to feel after interacting with our final year project.

Some people in the class want the people to feel happy and they want the users to have fun.
Some people want the experience to be educational.
Some people want the experience to serve as an eye-opener.
Etc.

Justine, Claire, Conor and I have the similar aim. We all want the experience to be scary. We want the user to feel uneasy and overwhelmed. Upon hearing one another, we decided to discuss/exchange ideas then we formed into a group.

Our group name is Osoreru. It's Japanese for "be afraid".

We will be updating this blog regularly according to our individual research and hopefully our ideas will develop into a successful project.