Virus : la hibridación del soporte análogo/digital en el lenguaje visual de un cortometraje de horror experimental.

Abstract

The short film Virus was filmed mostly on Super 8 film and partly on digital to create a hybrid of the format. This is because, due to the theme, it was considered opportune to experiment with the Super 8 film format and its unique characteristics such as its emulsion (color and black/white) as well as its texture and size that differentiate it from the digital image, in order to create a style and images that constitute a different visuality. The film image, being tangible and home-processed, contains a unique visual corporeality that is represented in the film's accidental scratches, smudges, frames that have been incompletely developed, halos of light, and the characteristic grain of Kodak film. This experimentation with the analog image is loaded with a meaning that can contribute a lot to the narration of a horror short film, as in the present project where the Virus has consumed even the film itself. Those "errors" that appear in the film layer are part of the final image. The short film that is explained in this document has been filmed with an analog camera that has characteristics that directly influence the production, acting and staging that is built spontaneously to be filmed in a single shot. The images recorded by the Super 8 camera create a dialogue between nostalgia and the aesthetics of home videos that are opposed to a fiction that seems to have been filmed in a timeless space.