Weeks had past since I saw the film and nightmares, hysteria & paranoia was kicking me back and forth. Eventually, with the month past, I was over the film but after another year, with the sequel to the first film, I never wanted to see another one since the first.
4 years later, and Marble Hornets enters the publics spot light. Which got me thinking how similar in design & representation the Marble Hornets Entries and the Paranormal Activity franchise were. Which got me wondering,
What makes this style of cinematography so frightening to the public?
Now, the film Paranormal Activity and the video entries of Marble Hornet are very much the similar in cinematography sense, which being in an amatuer-like hand-held style of documentary filming. Technically, there must be a term for this...
Upon my search, I found an article titled Cinéma vérité from Brittanica Encyclopedia in which it states that
Cinéma vérité , (French: “truth cinema”), French film movement of the 1960s that showed people in everyday situations with authentic dialogue and naturalness of action. Rather than following the usual technique of shooting sound and pictures together, the film maker first tapes actual conversations, interviews, and opinions. After selecting the best material, he films the visual material to fit the sound, often using a hand-held camera. The film is then put together in the cutting room.
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It is a style of filmmaking that attempts to convey candid realism. Often employing lightweight, hand-held cameras and sound equipment, it shows people in everyday situations and uses authentic dialogue, naturalness of action, and a minimum of rearrangement for the camera. The style was pioneered in the late 1950s and early 60s by such French documentary filmmakers as Jean Rouch and Chris Marker and has been influential in the work of a number of directors, most notably Jean-Luc
Godard. American filmmakers, who sometimes called the style "direct cinema," were quick to adopt and refine the technique. Included among them are Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, Albert and David Maysles (all of whom also helped to develop portable cameras and synchronous sound equipment), Frederick Wiseman, and Robert Drew. More recently, such documentary makers as Ken (and Ric) Burns and Barbara Kopple have made cinéma vérité techniques central to their films.
~ (Columbia University Press., 2011)
In general sum-up, the realism factor and possiblity factor is what made the said films in question and any other films with the same in form of filming so dramatically impacting to the public. We basically take the real world element and mix it up with the 'possibility' factor to create a work that can move the minds of an individual. This is why Marble Hornets and Paranormal Activity was successful in touching the minds to the viewer.
By taking reality ans adding something mythical you create the perfect horror film which most horror directors do, but what made the films in question so dramatic was its form of filming.
Now, we've concluded that Marble Hornets is still up for debate, but most can rule it as an elaborate hoax. Some may call it a cinematographic marvel much like Paranormal Activity; it may be fake but it ends up a classic because it heighten our perspective of reality/ realism in our culture and society.
I now realize that directors and future film makers have a scoring chance in changing more in our perspective look towards what we know of fear. In much cases as Marble Hornets, to those who believe it to be real, let us simply remember of the facts, and the scientific explaination to everything around us.
To conclude, Slender man, Poltegeist and other fearful figures from media are evidently just fears, that exsist because we make them exsist.
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