Post for FEB 11th

Well, it is only 8 more weeks until my IP is due and I am going to be doing less and less research and more and more just, working until I physically can't anymore.

The last bit of inspiration comes from a genuine relic from the internet.

MARBLE HORNETS

We all know Slenderman, the internet meme gone awry. Slenderman started as a photoshop contest to make convincing  'haunted; photo, and this one (below) ended up winning, it eventually spiraled into
fan theories, fan art, spin offs, video games and even more spin offs until the creepy "Slenderman" became a meme of the bare bones basic "Spooky urban legends creature," a short hand cliche trope that is no longer considered original

But there was a golden period, right after the photoshop contest but RIGHT before the Slenderman mythos became a pop culture phenomenon.

MARBLE HORNETS

Marble Hornets was a short form web series depicting an old student film found on tapes after the original owner went missing. When his childhood friend re-watched the old tapes, he starts to notice a creature following them in the background, from a distance. A monster known as "The Operator" long before "Slenderman" existed, terrorized the cast and crew of marble hornets. His very presence drove people slowly insane to the point of obsession. The fact that the video series is grainy old footage with the monster hidden in single frames at a time, the audience has to become obsessed themselves, looking at every single image frame by frame to see the horror, just as the characters do. The hidden nature of the operator causes the characters to look for him behind every corner and constantly doubt their eyes, and the abstract low budget quality of the show itself makes the viewer take on the same roll as the characters. This is the exact blend of form and function that I hope to embody in my own work.
I hope.