Proto-Cinema Blog 5: Pictorial Language Creative Process

In class we were asked to create a language that speaks to who we are; naturally, I thought I might make a horror alphabet. I decided I was going to draw symbols for a horror movie representing every letter of the alphabet.

A – Arachnopobia

B – Blair Witch Project, The

C – Children of the Corn

D – Dreamcatcher

E – Exorcist

F – Friday the 13td

G – Gremlins

H – Halloween

I- It

J – Jaws

K – Krampus

L – Leprechaun

M- Mummy, The

N – Nosferatu

O – Ouija

P – Psycho

Q – Quarantine

R – Ring, The

S – Scream

T – Thing, The

U – Uninvited

V – Vertigo

W- White Noise

X – X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes

Y- Young Frankenstein

Z- Zombieland

 

Then, I thought, maybe I could start a theme. I did an eclipse for the cave painting assignment, I could do something related to science for this project. So, I decided to create an alphabet from meteorological symbols.

[Pic: Examples of the most commonly used meteorological symbols]

 

So, I randomly assigned symbols to letters and created “meteo-glyphs.”