HYPRODUCTION

For final project exercise 1, we are required to create a webtoon comic and for our batch, the theme of the comic is set as horror. To be honest, I'm a little bit helpless when I knew the theme is fixed as horror at the starting of the semester, as I am a person who don't even watch horror movie and easily get frightened. But since the theme is fixed, I tried my best to come up with a storyline that I can cope with my timid heart. 

 

To start on with this assignment, to fit the theme of horror, and the limitation of my personal issue, I focus much more on what I used to fear of in my childhood which I always imagine what if there is a monster in my room hiding under the bed or cabinet. Other than that, thinking of dark environment, I thought of black cat that can camouflage in dark. And as a cat lover, I can't get over with the mist that I heard before stating that "Black cat bring bad luck, every time they show up there is always something bad happen", to me, cat is one of the animal with high intelligence and spirituality. Hence with all the consideration and spark of idea mentioned above, I created a storyline out of it. 

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Here is the storyline of my comic, titled as <Devil in the Dark>

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In a random full moon night, there is a girl sleeping alone in her room soundly, and suddenly, she feels that there is something coming near to her. She immediately open her eye and she saw a red monster staring at here. Right after, her parents ran towards her room and the girl was pointing to the window direction (She is actually pointing the cabinet but her mom took it wrongly as window) and also there is a black shadow flash by the window. So her mom checked and look outside the window and the mom saw the black cat on the opposite of the street, staring at her house. After this day, little girl often wake up in the middle of the night and scream, it get frequent and slowly, wound can be seen on little girl body. And every time when this happen, the parents can hear the sound of cat fighting in her room and the parents thought that it is the black cat that bring the bad luck and attracted the weird phenomenon to happen to their daughter, even the little girl keep mentioning that it was done by the monster, yet the parents just take it as the monster mentioned by the daughter is the black cat. 

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At the next full moon night, the black cat again appear and went into the little girl room.... after a few minute, the girl started screaming and crying. This time the parents came prepared and they saw the black cat and when the black cat jumped on to the bed and wanted to attack (the monster in the cabinet), the dad of the girl hit and killed the black cat with a baseball bat. There was a moment of silent right after and the parents comfort the little girl and tell her to not worry "Now the black cat is dead and now all the bad luck and nightmares is gone."

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At this moment, a creepy laughing sound greeted them and the devil slowly appear and show up.... The devil then said "THANKS FOR ELIMINATED MY OBSTACLES (black cat)" and "Now, I CAN ENJOY MY MEAL (the little girl, or even, the parents". 

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Beside telling a horror story, this story also tried to tell people that, don't blame the black cat when unfortune happen. I also ended the comic story with 2 line of word

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"A lot people believe that black cat bring bad luck especially when black cat cross their path during their downtime"

"But who knows that black cat might be sent to prevent things getting worst, to be there as your black warrior, protecting you in the dark" 

 

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