This week my intentions were to have started and completed my hammer horror article and to have to make adjustments to my Facebook addiction article 1st draft. However, because my Facebook addiction was judged to have no negatives so is now completed.

Therefore this week I have started my Hammer horror article and am about a quarter of the way through completing it. I will be working on it over the weekend hopefully complete it then or sometime next week. I have also talked to Mark and we discussed what props I can use in my upcoming photo shoots as well as going over the plan for my Facebook addiction article photo shoot.

Below is what I have wrote of my Hammer horror article:

Do you remember the good old days? Do you remember when horror films were scary? No? Neither do I. My generation has grown up in a time when advancements in film have allowed endless possibilities to wow the paying masses. Everything from 3D to CGI have made films more of a spectacle in technology rather than deep meaningful stories you can lose yourself in, causing genuine fear to its terrified audience like in the 60's. And of course the company leading the way in the genre were Hammer.

Looking at horrors in the present day, films like the Saw series and The Exorcist used jump scares and gruesome imagery to shock and appal audiences. Were they considered greats? No, but they were a new concept in the horror genre and they should be given merit for that.  Of course when something gains popularity, people rip of the good ideas and use them for their own. These horror films was no exception. Sooner or later every horror film had CGI beheadings and jump scares in every single film. And yes we can all admit jumping out of our skin the first time something drags a girl from a bed in Paranormal Activity, but after a while it just gets boring. It's hard to become scared of repetition, yeah when the pissed off monster starts shouting and waving its limbs around like a whacky inflatable arm tube man it's scary, but after the 7th time it just starts to look desperate and it loses all impact.

So how does this relate to Hammer? Well, Hammer films like any other film today would make you shit yourself at some point. The real difference was that Hammer could keep making you shit yourself throughout. "How?" I hear you ask. Well instead of relying on jump scares to scare people Hammer focused on people's fears and atmospheric mise en scene to scare the audience shitless. People were introduced to demonic characters talked about only in "what ifs." But, Hammer brought these characters to life, and for an hour and a half they preyed on peoples insecurities making them beg to stop even though they were a projection. This was power Hammer had.