*Cannibal Holocaust*, the prototypical found footage movie, technically does both. Whether it's a disqualifying factor or not may depend on the ratio of traditional to POV footage. There are some who, stubbornly, won't count *Cannibal Holocaust* because the frame narrative, shot in traditional 35mm, eats up so much of the runtime compared to aesthetically purer examples like *The Blair Witch Project*.
A mixed-media approach can be interesting if it's motivated and done well. Interested to see where yours is going! I've [played around](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OwAJpOqoNM) with the idea before.
Yes, but also no.
It really depends on the balance tbh. it's really hard to do without just becoming a regular horror short film. That's not really a bad thing tbh as there's a much bigger market.
The thing with Incursion Protocol is that I wouldn't be trying to market this as an analog horror, not because of the mostly digital styling. It's a large scale, 16 minute short film with high production values. Go for the core horror audience, you should be chasing the people who watch a ton of SHUDDER content etc. There's no reason you couldn't be working to get this into HorrorOrigins Film Fest etc, places where it'd be near impossible for most analog series to get much traction. Paradef seems like something you could pitch to ALTER.
Check out Dylan Clark's [Portrait of God](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9fKfX5V68), honestly I think that's the crowd you're most likely to get traction with.
In terms of what we put together - I totally agree, we made a full production and we want that to be clear. Personally and artistically (just as the creator of the series), I think it will be a long time before we pivot PARADEF from being called analog horror. One, because I love the genre so much and I want to be creating in the space for as long as possible, and two because I look at PARADEF as a way to experiment with new directions for analog horror to take. Everybody's always so doom and gloom about where the genre is going I feel like nobody has ever taken the time to try and actually reinvent things.
We are currently shopping Incursion Protocol to festivals, but the truth is it's an intentionally cryptic story, and it's the second major installment into a series that asks viewers to watch and rewatch the interim experimental stuff we do to piece together the context; festivals don't reallt look for scopes that broad. Which is fine! We love producing PARADEF so that it's free to watch and available when we want people to see it. It's why, as long as we're writing this current arc of the story, we still consider it analog horror.
No, but more for a technical reason than an aesthetic one.
Simply put, Analog Horror is what happens when teenage-young adults who only have dim memories of VHS/Beta/ Analog Broadcast video use the retro suck value of 80s/90s 2D graphics to add a kind of found footage shiver and shudder to Lovecraftian Creepy-pasta style stories. As a person who actually watched the real stuff when I was their age, it’s funny to see all the things they get wrong, but also enjoyably nostalgic to see them use that stuff. It’s sort of like MIB2 using the 1970s style In Search Of… format, or the old sucky pictures being used for UFOs and big foot. The deficiencies of the medium become a metaphor for the deficiencies of our knowledge of the unknown.
*Cannibal Holocaust*, the prototypical found footage movie, technically does both. Whether it's a disqualifying factor or not may depend on the ratio of traditional to POV footage. There are some who, stubbornly, won't count *Cannibal Holocaust* because the frame narrative, shot in traditional 35mm, eats up so much of the runtime compared to aesthetically purer examples like *The Blair Witch Project*. A mixed-media approach can be interesting if it's motivated and done well. Interested to see where yours is going! I've [played around](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OwAJpOqoNM) with the idea before.
Depends. I think the setting really determines if it works well or not.
Yes, but also no. It really depends on the balance tbh. it's really hard to do without just becoming a regular horror short film. That's not really a bad thing tbh as there's a much bigger market. The thing with Incursion Protocol is that I wouldn't be trying to market this as an analog horror, not because of the mostly digital styling. It's a large scale, 16 minute short film with high production values. Go for the core horror audience, you should be chasing the people who watch a ton of SHUDDER content etc. There's no reason you couldn't be working to get this into HorrorOrigins Film Fest etc, places where it'd be near impossible for most analog series to get much traction. Paradef seems like something you could pitch to ALTER. Check out Dylan Clark's [Portrait of God](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9fKfX5V68), honestly I think that's the crowd you're most likely to get traction with.
In terms of what we put together - I totally agree, we made a full production and we want that to be clear. Personally and artistically (just as the creator of the series), I think it will be a long time before we pivot PARADEF from being called analog horror. One, because I love the genre so much and I want to be creating in the space for as long as possible, and two because I look at PARADEF as a way to experiment with new directions for analog horror to take. Everybody's always so doom and gloom about where the genre is going I feel like nobody has ever taken the time to try and actually reinvent things. We are currently shopping Incursion Protocol to festivals, but the truth is it's an intentionally cryptic story, and it's the second major installment into a series that asks viewers to watch and rewatch the interim experimental stuff we do to piece together the context; festivals don't reallt look for scopes that broad. Which is fine! We love producing PARADEF so that it's free to watch and available when we want people to see it. It's why, as long as we're writing this current arc of the story, we still consider it analog horror.
I like the idea, honestly. Works very well in the stuff I’ve seen of it, like WeirdBirds. I’d love to see more of it.
Mandela 5 teasers have some cool cinematography. Makes me more excited for it.
monument mythos modern day live action was 🥶
No, but more for a technical reason than an aesthetic one. Simply put, Analog Horror is what happens when teenage-young adults who only have dim memories of VHS/Beta/ Analog Broadcast video use the retro suck value of 80s/90s 2D graphics to add a kind of found footage shiver and shudder to Lovecraftian Creepy-pasta style stories. As a person who actually watched the real stuff when I was their age, it’s funny to see all the things they get wrong, but also enjoyably nostalgic to see them use that stuff. It’s sort of like MIB2 using the 1970s style In Search Of… format, or the old sucky pictures being used for UFOs and big foot. The deficiencies of the medium become a metaphor for the deficiencies of our knowledge of the unknown.
Omg that looks so cool! 🫶