Research continued!

     As my partner and I hone in on more specific ideas, I wanted to continue to research extremes of the stylistic aura we seek to go to and horror itself. In one instance, I researched an area of the music industry, one particular artist, Sematary. The hip hop music artist includes various extreme editing choices and video designs involving horror involved imagery and intense grain and bad video quality, creating a certain theme and feeling to all of the work he creates. I seek to create similar work in the way that it conveys horror effectively, however, would make changes to create a more realistic and story centered video, rather than relying on harsh imagery solely. I think that using a naturalistic environment to convey horror would be something very new and exciting. Down below is an example of one of Sematary's videos for his music, and although very extreme and experimental, utilizes many similar techniques to what I would want. 

                                                                                                                                                                       

    I also want to utilize and create a vibrancy similar to the one created in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which used harsh imagery, dirty mise-en-scene, and other techniques to convey horror and fearful imagery. I think that it would be extremely beneficial to the film opening, as if I want to accurately convey horror and disgust, I think harsh and dark imagery and lighting is essential. If we end up going the handheld or found footage route, lighting will be much harder to control, as the naturalistic environment would be important to our story and our themes if all goes under control. Both the Sematary video and the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are inspiring to the type of film I want to make, and could serve as important for our future endeavor.