#videoproject

This is sort of a spur of the moment thing that I thought of at the last second lol. so if you guys don't mind helping me out feel free to. I will show you all when I am finished with what I am doing!

The goal of our group’s video project is to bring awareness of the queer roots within the vampire realm of the horror genre. We chose to focus on the history of queerness in vampires because it highlights a specific example of how queer history is often overlooked, erased, and rewritten to appeal to the masses that are the heterosexual population. Our production process began with researching vampire media throughout the centuries and comparing it to more recent adaptations of the monsters. This information was gathered to support our thesis that gay vampires are not a new concept and that their queerness has existed since their creation, despite pop culture’s blatant ignorance in films like Twilight and Interview With a Vampire in 1994.

The video proposal we made was slightly vague but included snippets of examples that we later incorporated in our draft. We took the feedback that our thesis needed three distinguishable main points and reworked it to focus on classic vampire literature, older movie adaptations, and modern day takes on vampires to explore where the queerness has always been and where it has been erased. After the proposal we continued to finetune our research into our draft and work the feedback we got from our professor and peers into our script writing by creating a call to action in our conclusion as well as selecting specific media examples to incorporate into the video. Almost everything was set going into filming, but we shortened several lines and quotes in our script upon the suggestion of our professor. We filmed everything in one day through many takes and spent the next few weeks getting together to edit to create our final product.

The finished Animatic for next month is up and ready on Patreon!