Thursday, April 26, 2012

Journal 69: Scary Stories


I usually avoid scary books and movies since I get scared easily and usually keep on scaring myself frequenty since I was very small. I use to imagine aliens poping out of every corner to capture me or just to scare me to death. I think the main thing that a ghost story have to focus on is is a sudden unexpected appearance, that works very well in visual movies, but I cannot not prove that it does in a book. The ghostory might want to focus ont eh scary part where the plot is scary, and not sudden unexpected events for example” suddenlya  zombie, with skins decaying and hollow eyes, jawbones haning losly beneath the skull, with some meat still stuck to it, jump in front of jimmy’s face and yelled “CHEWBACCA” it will eb very scary when visualized, but a very pathetic attempt if used used on books because readers simply will not get the sudden shock since they ahev to imagine it first, and by the time they are done, it’s not shocking anymore. With movies, trying to scare a viewer using storyline is not as efficient, because it is not like scaring suddenly that make people jump off their seat kind of scary, but gives people goosebumps fot eh whole nigh kind of scary. The readers can better imagine the storyine and hwo the characters look like using a book, and it does not require sudden random scary stuff kind of scary, so it is more efficient in expressing this kind of story.

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