A creator explains how to make audiences terrified by turning them into active participants. Instead of passively consuming a story, viewers experience it from a first-person detective perspective, piecing together clues as the plot unfolds, like reading Philip Marlowe.
I want to scare people with this thing that I made. That's kind of the change that I want to make. I want to like terrify you, but it's going to be a little bit different. Sometimes I want to like tell you the story, but I want to make you feel involved. Like I want you to not just sort of sit there and consume the story, but like you are a participant also in the story. It's almost like I'm putting you in the first-person point of view of the classic detective novel where you're like reading from Philip Marlowe's point of view or the Continental Ops point of view, and you're learning and piecing together things as you go on. Everything is a little murky. But gradually you start piecing it together, but you have to, like, be involved. You have to pay attention. And that's kind of where I'm coming from. I'm making, you know, um, stories in different media where you are the protagonist in a way.
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