I watched a really interesting film the other day, produced by the BBC...and when I say watched, I mean listened to (partly because it was scary and partly because I had other things to do on the computer). It was called 'Fear Itself' and was a film narrated by a girl describing how horror movies make the viewer afraid. I've never come across a film like it as it was almost like a documentary in how it was set up as an inquiry, but it was narrated in such a creative and poetic way. The script could have been a poem in places, and I could definitely use it as inspiration for writing things about my work. A it was a description of horror films, she mentioned darkness and light a lot which particularly caught my attention.
"I mean silence and darkness are just names we give to the moments when our eyes and ears let us down. If I look out into the night and can't see anything, it doesn't mean there's nothing there, just nothing I can make out"
I think again, this trying to explain and understand darkness is immediately thought-provoking. \In the context of the horror film , the darkness is very much about the unknown, and something to be feared. Directors use darkness to build fear and anticipation, making light a precious commodity for revealing what is there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0351g0z/fear-itself
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