Noah Carolan NUA Animation Year 2

In this session, we took a look into the history of gothic horror and urban horror. The gothic horror genre started with books like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby .  (The British Library's video dissecting the Gothic genre - credit: The British Library) The gothic genre had some key features prevalent in multiple stories; some of these include The Past returning to the Present - Some kind of figure from a character's past coming back to cause them distress. For example, though not a gothic novel, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol features the past returning, when Marley comes back to warn Scrooge to change his ways. In current media, this is usually done with ghosts and zombies. Wild Landscapes vs Imprisonment Bizarre Sexual Themes and Moments The Uncanny - The uncanny is, by definition, that which is not quite right, and gives off an unnerving feeling. These can be represented with dolls, mannequins, automata, et

This session looked at the idea of how we view ourselves, and what makes up our ego and mindscape. We started out by talking about cancel culture . Cancel culture has been particularly prevalent in society with the dawn of widespread social media, where one slip-up can lead to you being shunned in public, or cancelled. I've personally witnessed the effects of it. I didn't say anything racist or sexist or anything that actually warrants "cancellation"; I said I disagreed with a film director's direction with a character. That led to my Twitter replies being flooded with hundreds of DC Comics fans cancelling me. But that was a small example of cancel culture. Much higher profile personalities who do much MUCH worse than state their opinion on the newest Batman film get cancelled every day. An infamous example is James Gunn in 2018. Tweets came out where he made jokes involving sexual exploitation of children 10 years ago. When they resurfaced, he was cancelled

Before I get into the more formal part of the post, I just want to start out by saying: this session was a LOT of fun and I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to! This session was a writing workshop, where we were essentially given a bunch of exercises to do and write what we could! We started out with a word sprint . A word sprint is where you're given a certain amount of time to write as much as you can. In complete sentences, not just random words. In 3 minutes, I managed to write 98 words with the prompt "The Hidden Killer": Beep boop, it's the hidden killer! Yes, 'tis I. Guess what I do! Seriously, take a wild guess. I cook! Ha ha, just kiddin'. I do the kills. But no-one ever sees me coming. I got that bit from Iron Man 3 . You know, that films isn't as bad as people say it is. Anyways, back to me! I love killin'! Killed a chicken once. My bad. JK, LOL, had it for dinner. In my stomach now. But I usually hide in the cupboard. That's

In this session, we went over the new Jekyll and Hyde adaptation brief and started having a quick look at the story itself. We were back with Lindsey for this project; last time she led a project with us, it was for the narrative analysis essay. I enjoy her lectures quite a bit, so I was glad to be back in them after Mhari's! We were told that the brief was quite loose, and the whole Jekyll and Hyde book was moreso a jumping off point than the entire point of the project. It's meant to serve as inspiration , we're not actually adapting the story down to the fine points. Blogs are required for this project, so here's that blog! As mentioned before, we're using the story of Jekyll and Hyde, actually entitled The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , for this project. It's a story about a man who is able to switch between two forms; his normal self Dr Jekyll, and his more primal side of Mr Hyde. The novella was written in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson, a