Visitor Information

Visitor Information is another piece created and staring Alan Resnick and is a film about a man who lives in a parking garage and his calm cry for help. I want to talk about this piece because of it's sense of scariness, a lot of the modern day 'Horror' films for me aren't too scary as their all very cliched.
The general plot is: Character is alerted to 'horrific being', horrific being starts to haunt/kill/disturb protagonist. Some spooky scenes are show of the creature/ creature is shown fully on screen losing it's scare factor completely when it's finally reveled how the creature was created or how to defeat it. However, in this short piece the scariness is what is the person as we can see that he's a person but the how, followed by camera shots to make the audience feel creeped out.

Starting with why it's scary. Instead of being 'Here's a big bad creature this is what it can do and this how it's defeated' it straight up shows us here a person will an illness that looks very creepy, but then it has him talking about the visitor information about the building dropping hints that he wants help. Throughout the piece the camera shots make the audience feel very uneasy. It uses lots a zooms to show alot of the surrounding, but what makes it uneasy is how long it takes/ how far the zoom actually zooms. For instance there is apart where the character is talking and it slowly zooms in towards his face as he talk, however when he stops talking he keeps staring into the camera not averting gaze which make it quite uneasy to look at.

When he starts talking about himself the sound gets drastically louder as an attempt to hide that he wants assistance slowly dissipating like nothing has happened, this causes the audience to ask a lot of questions wondering what's wrong or how he ended up like this. Another thing about the audio is that it feels very raw being that when an interview like this is done everything is calm and the take their time where in this the character seems like he's not prepared and he's talking about what he has to say plus what comes to mind with him running out of breathe towards the end of the piece.

The thing that makes the piece scary isn't that it's trying to scare you. It's that the character is so normal and doing things like there's nothing wrong while talking about things that are wrong, having the character talking in a happy tone is unnerving to the audience and with the camera movements which are unnatural make the audience uneasy.

Link to Visitor Information - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsRNb7KepDA