Thursday, 14 January 2016

Real World Influences

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Article: The Reasons Those Scary Games You Played At Sleepovers Actually Worked


There’s a bathroom in my house I can’t go into after dark because I’m still scared I’ll get pulled into the mirror by Bloody Mary.
At every sleepover, someone would suggest playing Bloody Mary, a legitimately terrifying “game,” and off we’d go sneaking into the kitchen to find a suitable candle.
If it wasn’t Bloody Mary, we’d play rocks-paper-scissor to decide who would become “light as a feather, stiff as a board.”
These classic sleepover games totally freaked me out and made me wonder if real ghosts and spirits were actually causing all these creepy things to happen.
As an older and slightly less naive person, I can acknowledge most of the sleepover phenomena was less magic and more science.
This is what made your sleepover games work:

Light as a feather, stiff as a board…
Directions: One friend lies down flat on the floor. Everybody else sits around and puts a finger or two under that person’s body. The circle starts chanting “light as a feather, stiff as a board” and counts to three.
Supposed outcome: On three, the group should be able to lift the center person off the floor using just a finger or two.
What actually happens: By chanting and counting to three, everybody in the circle is in sync and makes the lift attempt at the exact same moment.
This means weight is equally distributed across everyone, and your fingers only have to hold so much weight. Your fingers are actually pretty strong and can hold up a lot, so it’s not that hard to lift your friend.

Bloody Mary
Directions: The directions vary, but in my experience, you take a lit candle into a dark room with a mirror and repeat “Bloody Mary” 13 times.
Supposed outcome: A woman covered in blood will appear in the mirror and try to take your soul.
What actually happens: Your brain is an assh*le. Seriously. There’s this thing called the Troxler Effect where if you stare at a point for a while, everything else will fade away. Then your brain will start filling in the outside space with a distortion of what you’re staring at.
So if you’re staring at your face in the mirror, your brain will start filling the outer area of your vision with a distortion of your face… or a monster. This is especially pronounced in low-light spaces.
In an experiment where people stared into a mirror in low light for 10 minutes, 48 percent of people said they saw “fantastical and monstrous beings” in the mirror. Thanks, assh*le brain.

Ouija
Directions: Put your hands on the ouija board. Ask ~the spirits~ a question.
Supposed outcome: The spirits will move your hands to form the answers.
What actually happens: Ouija works thanks to the “ideomotor effect.” Basically, your subconscious is making your hands move, even if you aren’t consciously directing it. But yeah, it’s all you, not spirits.

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/scary-sleepover-games-worked/1255777/

After looking at this article and the author said these sleepover games freaked them out, this made me come up with the concept of my one minute short film, couple of friends were having a sleepover on Halloween night, one suggested that they should play a little scary game but the situation got out of hand as it couldn't be controlled any more. There a different range of scary games challenge including Bloody Mary, Ouija and Charlie Charlie etc.
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Short Film: MAMA



This video gave me couple ideas to come up with my short film plot, e.g at the minute '2:38' & '3:18', where the two little girl's mother is a monster, it represent an alcohol abusive mother. It is their "mother" but she is a monster when she comes home from drinking, maybe a symbolic of how kids see abusive parents. (YouTube comment). This remind of the movie 'Coraline' because the parents are similar as they both creepy.

 Although it's not similar to my idea but the way 'Mama' was chasing her daughters/the little girls pretty fast, this gave me an idea that I could have someone with scary demon possession inside them chasing people stutter running really fast, possibly male although I prefer female as they are scarier especially a little girl but female alway get possessed in horror movies and this what lacked originality even though I did not completely made this idea up.

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 Twitter Trend/Article: Charlie Charlie Challenge (Charlie Charlie Challenge - what is the spooky craze, and what is the explanation for it?)

A strange new game is taking over Twitter, fuelled by speculation that its players can connect with a dead Mexican spirit known as Charlie.
The Charlie Charlie Challenge has been played by thousands of young people after a number of videos purported to show supernatural goings-on.
The game entails placing two pencils on a piece of paper in the shape of the cross with the words 'yes' and 'no'. Participants then repeat the phrase "Charlie, Charlie can we play?" in order to connect with the demon.
If Charlie is there the pencils will move to indicate his answer.
One reddit user believes he has uncovered a full explanation of the game:
"The best explanation I have found is here.
You’ve probably heard of using a Ouija board to contact spirits, but I bet you haven’t heard of using pencils to have your questions answered by supernatural beings! The Pencil Game, also called “Charlie, Charlie,” is a traditional Mexican ritual wherein players (usually children) are said to contact the spirit of a child named Charlie.
To begin the game, both players must chant: “Charlie, Charlie, can we play?” If the pencils move inward or up, the answer is yes. If they move outward or down, the answer is no. If one side goes one way and the other side goes a different way, it means maybe or the question can’t be answered at this time. You can then ask the spirit of Charlie yes or no questions, and he will respond by moving the pencils. Charlie is kind of like the spirit world version of a Magic 8 ball. To end the game, both players must chant: “Charlie, Charlie, can we stop?” After the pencils move, both players drop all of the pencils on the floor to break contact with Charlie."

 Needless to say the reaction to the craze has been mixed:

If it all gets too creepy, here's how to "say goodbye" to Charlie:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11628862/Charlie-Charlie-Challenge-what-is-it-what-is-the-explanation.html 

After looking at the scary sleepover game article, this led me to think about other scary sleepover games like 'Sandbags, Candyman, Light as a Feather Stiff as a Board, Cat Scratch etc. Then this made me think back in May 2015, I remember there was this scary game that was trending on many Social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. This scary game was known as 'Charlie Charlie Challenge', which can be a new scary sleepover game. This led me to come up with the concept of my short film.
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