I trust her

  One day I was sitting in Astronomy taking notes, and then something my teacher had said caught my attention. He was talking about the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, which is a, well, very large array of satellites that pick up radio waves. They are sometimes used to help the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project.
  This led me to brainstorm an idea about a female intern who was forced by her male colleagues to listen to the frequencies while they went off and got drunk. After hours of just listening to the sounds, she is on the verge of falling asleep when she hears something. She is convinced that that something was an extraterrestrial sound, but no one believes her which causes her to go crazy. It would have had the vibe and aura of Alien (1979), combined with the descent into madness similar to the one Jack Torrance goes through in The Shining (1980). I watched this Youtube video, which sold me even further into the concept of going insane. It is interesting to watch an average character turn into a murderous villain. That is the essence I wanted to try and recreate in this opening.

 These images from Alien (1979) showcase the cool, dark tones and sci-fi vision I wanted to recreate.

  Image from Katy Fosdike's blog.
  Image from a Tumblr blog.
  Image from Tumblr.

These images from The Shining (1980) exemplify the madness being portrayed.

The famous "Here's Johnny!" scene, from Wordpress.

 A favorite scene of mine. It is followed by "I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in!". Iconic. Beautiful. Legendary. (From Pinterest).

 It was a vague idea that was up for interpretation but I really liked it. However, my group felt like it would be too trailer-like, and that we could do more. So we decided to work with an idea that my partner Kristen had.
 The idea that Kristen has still sticks with the dark theme. It will be about a female witch, dressed as a housewife, torturing some guy in a basement. The plan is to have it set in the 50s/60s. We also wanted to have some happy music from that era that could be eery and outright creepy when paired with the right visuals (Kristen made a playlist, and Zoe found some songs in the public domain). Our mission is to give the audience chills, which is kind of what I wanted to do in the first place. So I'm 100% on board.

I firmly believe in this idea, and I know Kristen's vision, combined with Zoe and I's, will help us make something beautiful. The moral of the story is, I love Kristen, and I trust her.



Citations:

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Descent Into Madness (C LIT 272). (2016, May 31). Retrieved March 12, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y5ZE2pK6yw

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Heller, J. (2013, April 02). The Shining: Here’s Johnny! Retrieved March 12, 2017, from https://jeheller.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/the-shining-heres-johnny/

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