Creating my own horror story.....

Throughout this project, I wanted my fears to be captured on my camera screen. The movies that scary me the most are the typical "happy girl, becomes vulnerable, goes crazy, and ends up being a powerful force that is unstoppable. "In my mind, the scariest things are the ones that cannot be stopped. I wanted the pictures to tell a story that mimics the typical scary movie above. At first I created fake v8 juice blood, wrote on a mirror, and wondered how I was going to display psychologically disturbed. I thought longer about what it would be like if a friend became stereotypical scary movie crazy. How would I feel or what would it look like? 

From the beginning, I wanted things dark. I purposely underexposed many of the pictures. I also wanted the pictures to feel realistic even though they were all created by me. This is why I mixed colored and black and white pictures. I wanted the viewer to feel the difference and shifts in personality and time. I put the images in this order to create a story. I wanted the eye at the door to be a sign of an all seeing and knowing higher power who invades an unsuspecting person. All the pictures after that are meant to add suspense and create consequences. The last picture, one of my favorites, was made to leave the viewer with the imprint of having no control. 

This project challenged me in many different was. First of all, I hate scary movies. Second of all, I was worried that the pictures would be cheesy or too fictional. I did not know how to use light or how I was going to create a story. But by shooting and thinking up ideas I began to create a horror story of my own.