My Digital Story

Brandon van Sluis

My end goal was to create a horror story that effectively disturbed and/or unsettled my audience. Invoking fear is an art form, one which I aimed to perfect with this project. My earlier outlines called for a focus on the audio element of storytelling. However, as the creative process continued, I made the decision to use a hybrid of fear-inducing audio and still photography to tell my story. At its core this is a ghost story. With inspiring elements from Slenderman and The X-files, I utilized powerpoint to create a slideshow video documenting my encounters with a ghostly figure that began showing up in the background of my photography. To portray this work of fiction, I staged scenes with my friends as actors. Then, visualizing where I wanted the ghost to appear, I directed the positioning of the actor playing the ghost so as to be the most scary. Audio was taken from creative commons purple-planet.com.