Shock! A New Horror

I hope that our final work, Aberrant, draws in our audience and keeps them entertained throughout the runtime. The film is quite short, coming in at a tight 7 minutes and 43 seconds, and I hope that the audience is effectively hooked by the engaging music video that the movie starts with. By offering brief […]

I hope our final work engages its audience by blending humour with tension, highlighting the unexpected twists of modern dating. The comedic elements, such as the jinx and Maddy’s playful banter, create a light-hearted atmosphere, making the darker themes more impactful. This juxtaposition can evoke a range of emotions, drawing the audience into the narrative […]

A key concern of this studio was understanding and participating in a new kind of horror, labelled post-horror, art-horror, elevated horror etc. In our first class we were asked to define this trend, and it proved difficult, because truthfully I do not believe that this is a real trend that exists within filmmaking, but rather […]

Date Night Jinx was created as a cautionary tale on the negative aspects of dating apps. That is the aspect of the film’s themes that I am trying to convey the most through the plot of Date Night Jinx. Church (2021) states that the “thematic exploration of what Silvan Tomkins terms “negative affects”” (p. 13) […]

The creation of our film “Rapture” is something that as a collective, we are extremely proud of; and for multiple reasons. One, being able to produce a short film after the strenuous circumstance we faced was in itself as rewarding as it gets, but two, being able to produce a film that exceeded even our […]

Date Night Jinx viewing link: https://youtu.be/ee8XYtsbHgo?si=_F9O1wIvBZhf9KhQ Reflection: Date Night Jinx, a short film I worked on this semester, comments on modern dating and questions the safety of online dating platforms through the form of horror and represents the key post-horror elements we explored at the start of the studio. The film engages the audience through […]

coalescence POSTER Final project: REFLECTION Audience I hope my final work with the short film Coalescence accurate displays the themes of envy, jealously, and self-destruction through the lens of an artist who is consumed by her high-achieving classmate’s work and communicates the overall notion of post-horror. As described, the studio aims to create media which […]

FILM LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ee8XYtsbHgo&feature=youtu.be   PRODUCTION DOCUMENTS: https://rmiteduau-my.sharepoint.com/personal/s4096543_student_rmit_edu_au/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?e=5%3A76f6bf3eb3854bcdab12f234c80aa320&sharingv2=true&fromShare=true&at=9&CT=1729473097492&OR=OWA%2DNT%2DMail&CID=c4d67465%2Da8ad%2D92f7%2D08c6%2Dae862bed9157&cidOR=Client&id=%2Fpersonal%2Fs4096543%5Fstudent%5Frmit%5Fedu%5Fau%2FDocuments%2FDate%20Night%20Jinx%20Documentation&FolderCTID=0x012000FBDE16EF4A496743A330C470DF4D025A&view=0   REFLECTION:   Week 6: Pre-Production Planning in Week 6, the focus was on laying the groundwork for our horror short film. As producer, I coordinated pre-production activities, including script breakdowns and scheduling. I also took on the task of prop-making, researching materials and designs that would enhance our […]

Welcome to Shock! A New Horror! where we explore horror films through a contemporary lens Quote: ‘Just because it’s a horror film doesn’t mean it can’t be deep.’ —Jennifer Kent Australian Screen in The 2000s, edited by Mark David Ryan, and Ben Goldsmith, Springer International Publishing AG, 2018 Studio Prompt: What is post-horror and is it […]