Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Marble Hornets: The Potential of Social Media Cinema

This was the second time I've watched the Marble Hornets series of videos on You Tube.  Initially I was perhaps weirdly intrigued by the murder that happened involving pre-teens around Slenderman.  Slenderman is a fictional character created by Eric Knudsen for the Web community Something Awful.

Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, both twelve year olds, got it in their heads that it would be a good idea to murder their classmate in the name of Slenderman.



However, Slenderman does to bear some power over the Slenderman form.  His form can be seen in malls as faceless mannequins with fingerless hands.


Marble Hornets is the original Slenderman Youtube videos.  The videos are actually quite riveting and certainly stand out in an oversaturated sea of "found footage" sub-genre films that is YouTube.

Initially, the contrast in sound immediately jolts you into a state of defensiveness.