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For my video essay, --roughly entitled "Interpretations of Fear"--- I shall explore the nature of man’s emotion of fear. We may all agree that a reaction of fear cannot normally be produced without some sort of stimulus, but I wish to delve into the question of why we so often become afraid without logical cause, when there is no apparent threat to our well-being in our surroundings. Why can we be visually stimulated to irrationally sense an unnerving danger that simply does not exist? I want to include a few interviews asking my peers to divulge certain phobias, not the kind that would produce an outright scream, but rather those that cause a distinct chill to run down their backs. My video essay will contain numerous images that will hopefully evoke a subtle sense of fear. For contrast, I will juxtapose these images with footage of more traditional and universal fright scenes. To help set the rhythm and further convey the irrationality of this, I will include audio and visual footage of footsteps quickening their pace. I am composing my essay using still photographs occasionally broken up by film footage captured by myself, or taken from YouTube. I am toying with the idea of adding clips from some Alfred Hitchcock films, which have been my main source of inspiration.