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Creating a Haunting Atmosphere: The Art of Designing a Scary Place

Explore the psychology of fear and discover the elements that make a place eerie and unsettling. Learn about Pareidolia, Patternicity, Infrasound, and more. Uncover the secrets of making the unknown terrifying. Dive into the world of horror and design a space that sends shivers down the spine!

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Creating a Haunting Atmosphere: The Art of Designing a Scary Place

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  1. How to design a scary place! It’s all about color and light

  2. Ghosts! • Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. • Patternicity - the tendency to find patterns in both meaningful and meaningless noise. Our brains are belief engines, built to make the connections between stimuli. • Infrasound – low frequency sound (below 20htz) that might cause people to feel awe or fear. Can be linked to the experience of sensing the supernatural • Carbon Monoxide – carbon monoxide poisoning can cause feelings of anxiety, visual and auditory hallucinations, and other “supernatural” phenomena.

  3. What makes something scary? • Unknown, unseen, undefinable • Uncanny valley • Using what people “know” against them • Stereotypical environmental stimuli – the entirety of the experience, not just one piece • Making it personal!

  4. How are we going to create this environment? • A better question might be: “How am I going to force an audience to feel a certain way?”

  5. Imperceptible/Uncomfortable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BMSYXK4-AI

  6. Natural/Unnatural

  7. Usual made creepy • Based on the things we know and understand being out of normal parameters • Scale, color, condition, proportion • Uncanny valley • Anthropomorphism

  8. The basement • Perfect storm of creepy!

  9. Edgar Allen Poe’s basement!!

  10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT-G1T7gvb0 http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70112368&trkid=13752289&tctx=0,0,cabin%20in:a6c27259-ea7a-40f8-b6b1-20d91487a090 27:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUIxXCCFWw

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