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A couple of days ago, I went outside at night to go to the shops, and since I had my phone with me I decided to record me walking there. Then I edited it on the dy of writing this to give an impression that some disaster happened in the background, mostly through sound. I used British Air Raid Sirens to for the disaster, and the cry of the Pokémon Eternatus to act as the cause of the alarms. Said Pokémon causes similar problems in the game it comes from, so I figured it would be a good match and a last callback to my previous video work.

The rest of the work this semester will aim to have less direct impact from the Pokémon franchise from here on.

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Recently, I began looking into types of video on YouTube known as ARGs and Analog Horror. Examples of the main ones I've seen and finished watching at the time of writing are the 'Mandela Catalog' and 'Gemini Home Entertainment'. I liked the atmosphere, the mysteries and short stories they can present. It has inspired me to make my own, but it will require a lot of planning that I've been rather slow on starting.

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For the first workshop I attended, we were told to imagine a purple elephant on the table in front of us. We were given some words and used our imagination to 'see' what it was. Naturally many people had many ideas of what the purple elephant looked like. This then lead on to taking a look at artists who present a concept as art, rather than make some actual piece.

Once we were sent off to experiment, I decided to grab some scraps of paper from the floor and start drawing.

The concept I presented was this: an audience would walk into the studios and would eventually look in the direction of the sink. There they would see a note with a couple of drawings stating that there is a dead man in the sinks basin. When they look in, they'd see another chunk of paper with drawings and text, all implying that a 'Mr Samson' was killed and has disappeared from the sink, while also having been replaced by some strange entity.

The ideas I could take from this is to expand the story I have begun. Who is Mr Samson? Who killed him? Who replaced him? I could turn this idea into an ARG. I will expand on Mr Samson.

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I attended Workshop 2 because the goal of it was to help students like me get another perspective and more ideas on how to move further with my project.

Everyone would put their idea forward and everyone would put in their own input and ideas. When it was my turn, I put forward my idea and inspirations, and fortunately at least 1 other person had heard of them. I took some photographs of the ideas presented. I seek to explore this week Government alerts and messages, and later on how I will present my work the future exhibition.
I will look into MI5 & 6 and work from there.

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After some more thought on where I want to take this project, I have decided to go down the path of ARGs (Alternate Reality Games) while keeping a sense of horror.

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Mr Samson will be the main victim and character of my project. I have made a poster that I will probably print out on Monday. I'll stick around 3 up in the Studios to help build some Mystery.

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I went to this workshop to help further my ideas on where to take my project. The image is from the task where we meditated for a couple minutes and then on sheets of paper, write down the first words that came into our heads. Honestly I don't think the writing part has really helped me that much.

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During the workshop, I took a chance to draw some creepy faces to try and visualize the main villain of my narrative in my project. I think I might go further with the middle image because I want BERTIE's main form to look like a dog.

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I remade the missing poster in an attempt to make it more professional.

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A new character to add to the 'BERTIE' mythos. I obtained the photo the same as before, from the website Thispersondoesnotexist.com

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I used a different template to make this poster. I made it on the website https://www.postermywall.com/index.php

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Copy of White and Red Missing Person Poster - Made with PosterMyWall

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I have left this project alone for far too long and I am panicking a bit. I will try and keep this project a bit open ended, perhaps just never showing bodies. I have finally finished the new posters I said I'd make, and now I think I will move onto making some short atmospheric videos I can show on old TVs. They will be short and the general idea will be that BERTIE is currently watching the viewer, who could be next. The inspiration for this idea comes from the Mandela Catalog Volume 2.

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At the time of writing I am on YouTube watching Wendigoon's video on the Salad Fingers series, a surrealist web series by David Firth that dates back to 2007.

In the video, Wendigoon mentions an early video of his on the movie "The Thing". The titular monster never has it's true form shown, constantly changing forms. The movie doesn't reveal its hand - playing on the fear of the unknown.

I have downloaded some images from certain websites in the same vein as thispersondoesnotexist.com, focused mainly on cats and dogs because I want the main villain of my project, BERTIE, to also switch between forms. I could have BERTIE's true form be the cartoon dog I drew, but it could be even more effective to just have BERTIE appear as cats and dogs but never reveal the truth, to keep the horror alive.

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I met with a student from Royal College who sat down with me to provide some aid for my project. The main take-away was to look at some more inspiration, such as taking a look at the storytelling of articles of the SCP Foundation, tuning into the Magnus Archives, looking at Junji Ito's work, and to finally start working on a storyline for the project since I was intending to make a single video initially. Unfortunately I have yet to take a good look at the Magnus Archives or Junji Ito's work, and the storyline is still generally messy as of 02/05/2022.

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I made this video based on the Mandela Catalog video 'Exhibition'. The intention I have for this video is to be shown on an older TV in a dark room, similar to how the character Adam Murray was talking with an alternate in a TV in a dark room in Volume 2.

The music in the video is called 'Ava Maria' by Alessandro Moreschi. I heard it in two videos of the Mandela Catalog and liked how the creepiness of the song helped amp up the horrors shown. I downloaded the video in an intentionally poor quality to try and increase the 'ethereal' feel.

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This is the final edited version of my work to be shown for Monday's exhibition.

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This document is all about work and inspirations.