Precedent Update

some precedent updates from class...

- The Hospital -
- The Hospital is a flash based interactive web piece. The user explores an abandoned hospital which is now in ruins. The user explores through the environments where "nothing is as we expect to see it." - The Hospital - Screenshots: 1 2 3

- The 7th Guest -
- "The 7th Guest, published in 1992 by Virgin Games, is a video-based puzzle computer game, not unlike The Fool's Errand and predating Myst. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. Seventh Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac." - Wikipedia.org - Screenshot: 1 2 3

- The 11th Hour -
- "The 11th Hour is a 1995 puzzle computer game with a horror setting. It is the sequel to the 1992 game The 7th Guest." - Wikipedia.org - Screenshot: 1 2 3

- MYST -
- Myst is a video first-person puzzle game released in 1993. - Screenshot: 1 2 3

Fear Questionnaires

short questionnaire about peoples fears...

Name?
Age?
Born in?
Where have you lived? How long in each place?
Where is the most remote or rural place you have lived in? How rural was it?
Where is the most remote or rural and isolated place you have visited?
Did you find these places scary at all? If so, at what times and why?
Give some childhood fears:
Give some current fears, what are things that scare you a lot, things you would hope to never encounter in your life?
Do you have any phobias? if so , what of?
Do blood and gore bother you, how do they make you feel?
Any animals or creatures that frighten you?
Any sounds that frighten you? or that you feel are eerie/ strange disturbing?
Favorite horror/suspense/mystery movies?


Chris
21
Kingston, NY
New Paltz - 10 years, Long Island, 8 years
Southold - as rural as rural
uh - some boonie in Ireland
yes - your alone, in the woods. its creepy. its a generally creepy place far from any society.
dark, closets, mainly the dark

Death of a loved one - a slow and painful death for myself
None that I know of
Not really, they make me excited and intrigued
Squids, any deepsea type animal is pretty creepy.
Silence
I honestly don't know of any that come to mind VERY quickly. I don't like many horror/suspense movies. They are generally poorly made and cliche with no meaning.


-Ira Sutcliffe
-23
-Englewood, NJ
-Teaneck, NJ – 21 years
New York, NY – 2 years
-Never lived in a rural place. Stayed at a hotel in Birmingham, AL, for 5 days. Pretty rural and slow moving but not so bad. Got lost in the freakin’ backwoods of New York state on a foggy day once. That was great. haha
-Definitely my old friend Ashley’s parents’ place someplace in Alabama where there were only dirt roads, no traffic lights, no street lights, and you felt like you could be shot at any moment with a shotgun from someone’s porch.
-Not scary per se but I do remember it being funny how obviously cliché the environments were for horror movie-like circumstances!
-After I saw the Nightmare on Elm Street where the bathtub caves in and there’s a huge ocean underneath where Freddy kills the woman who was in the tub
I was as quick as possible when showering. I also used to pull the shower curtain open all the way if I was going into the bathroom and it was closed to make sure no one was there.
-I’m actually pretty good with fears. I’d prefer not to be in a room with snakes or at the top of a tall building looking down over the edge but I’m certainly not afraid of it.
-Nope
-Sometimes if the gore is excessive I lose interest in watching but it doesn’t really bother me.
-Nope
-Not frighten but when you’re not expecting a loud noise and then BANG sometimes I do jump
not ALWAYS but sometimes.
-Seven, Event Horizon isn’t bad that scared the crap out of me when I was younger, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare was pretty good. The Ring wasn’t bad ‘til the crap ending.


-Meyna Park
-20
-Flushing, NY

-Closter, NJ(10); Demarest, NJ(3); Manhattan,
NY (3)
- Demarest
How rural was it?
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Where is the most remote or rural and isolated place you have visited?
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-no because i'm used to the quiet neighborhood where all the stores close before 10 and the
streets are quiet and dark by 12
Give some childhood fears:
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- spiders, death, being robbed by gunpoint, getting raped
Do you have any phobias? if so , what of?
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-blood and gore bother me only if it is real; the blood and gore from
the movies seem a tad bit fake and therefore do not bother me
-all the SAW movies



-Mike Arguello
-21
-NEW YORK CITY. THE ROTTEN APPLE.
-MANHATTAN, ALL MY LIFE. BROOKLYN, ABOUT 6 MONTHS.
-ITS NEW YORK, WUDDAYA EXPECT?
-NORTH WEST ARKANSAS.
-HELL YEAH. CULTURE SHOCKKK.....A BIT TOO QUITE FOR MY TASTE.
-RATS. GHOSTS.
-ANY LIFE THREATENING SITUATIONS, OTHER THAN THAT, THE CITY WILLL EITHER MAKE YOU OR , BREAK YOU.
-YES I DO, CITY RATS, GUTTER RATS, NASTY RATS...DISEASE INFESTED RATS.
-NOT TOO MUCH, TEXAS CHAIN SAW MADE MY STOMACH TURN THOUGH.
-RATS.
-THE SOUND OF FIESTY RATS. RATS CAUGHT ON A GLUE TRAP AS WELL.
THEYRE DISGUSTING.
-SE7EN.

-Ogoby Asencio
-22
-Manhattan, New York.
-Kingsbridge for 5 mos, Mott Haven for 6 mos, East New York for 2 yrs, and UWS for 17 yrs.
Where is the most remote or rural place you have lived in? How rural was it?
-The inner core of New York Citys subway system.
-Not at all! It was very relaxing.
-Enclosed spaces.
-BIG BUGS!
-Water bugs.
-A bit. But never from a movie. It is our imagination.
-Some sea creatures.
-Constant infant cries.
-omg..theres just to many..lol

Resident Evil Precedent Thought

After thinking about it more, the Resident Evil games in general, are very similar to my project. The characters are usually introduced to an unknown and eerie environment, where they are forced to explore and interact with objects to further the game. There are also numerous obstacles and characters that the players character comes in contact with. I think these games may be a bigger influence than I had previously thought..

Website Up

Put up my website last night, it is very basic right now and I plan to update it and redesign it as I make more progress with my project.

- core six site

Brief Update

I have to decided to create an interactive narrative in the 1st person point of view. I am going to use the core3 flash project as an influence, or a base. I want to do something similar to that, in regards to the feelings it conveys(I want this piece to be scary, eerie, and perhaps disturbing). I want to change all of the graphics, and I need to develop the narrative. I would like to make it more of an animation piece, than a flash piece; instead of a simple zoom, I want the audience to see the character walking through a field, or wherever they may be.

I would also like to do a advertisement package for this interactive narrative project. I wish to do a poster, teaser, and website.

Narrative:
The narrative will start off with the character, which I have yet to develop, waking up in the middle of a field, in the middle of nowhere (perhaps a field in the very rural and isolated part of the Southern United States. The main character, of whose eyes you will be seeing from, will wake up with no knowledge of who he is, or how he got there. He will have to explore his surroundings to figure out where he is and who he is.

Style:
I want to go with a dark and photographic approach(appose to a more graphical, cartoonish style)


Inspiration/precedents:

An AMC network spot: View Quicktime
From the first person point-of-view, someone is running through a graveyard. This commercial was done by Shilo; http://www.shilodesign.com

Resident Evil Game: The storyline of one of the Resident Evil games, which one I cannot remember exactly, involves the players character suffering from amnesia, as he explores his environment, he encounters different situations and slowly gains knowledge of his identity.


-- Will post more specific and detailed information soon...