To help me with the development of narrative technique, I look into popular narrative techniques that is suitable for the genre of horror. Based on my research, here is some of the narrative technique commonly found in the horror genre to make the stroyline more scaries or thrilling.
1. Uncanny Valley
Look almost human, but not human
Example: Store mannequin, zombie, android
2. Monster as metaphor
Representative of something within character
Emotion, problem (manifestation of that)
Australian: Babadook (insight of the character)
How it terrorise them emotionally
3. Image and senses
Specific unnerving images
Stick with readers
Use all senses to describe (taste, smell, sound)
Could be one sentence
4. Control atmosphere and tone
Envelope you
Feeling of dread by tone of story
Colour palette
Emotions the character feeling
5. Juxtapose with lighter moments
Highlight the terrifying to more TERRIFYING
Remind you that they are human and in the midst of smthg terrifying
Humanise the character
6. Utilise suspense
Feeling of something terrible is gonna happen
Building up tension and fear
So much more impactful
From what I learned, I really wanted to utilised the technique of uncanny valley, monster as metaphor and suspense to help with my photo-novel. Therefore, I was thinking that in my story the main monster is "Perfection" as it is something that would bring her pain. While I could use uncanny valley and suspense in the layout of the photo novel and the cinematography.
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