The Meaning Behind Our Design

The title of our blog, as you can see, is “Buried Alive In The Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe”. The reason we picked this title was because the act of getting buried alive is a reappearing theme in the stories that we have read by Poe so far. We also thought it was symbolic. We thought it symbolised the reader getting drawn deep into the stories written by Poe.

The font we chose is called “Coming Soon”. We chose this font because not only does it sound creepy, like somebody is going to come find you soon, but also because the visual aspect of the crooked, hand written look and messy design adds an eerie and uncomfortable feel to the blog.

The background that we chose is a picture decaying dead trees in a forest late at night. The main colours in the picture are dark blue and black, accented by a spot of white fog to give it some sort of depth. We chose it because we think it brings out the fear of being a lone with nobody around to help you but also our fear of the unknown.

We picked the best picture possible for each individual post to fit that post. For example, For the post about the story “The Black Cat” we chose a cartoon silhouette of a creepy old man with glasses (Main character) standing be a tree with a cat hanging from a noose. This is a scene straight out of the story itself.

The music we chose are scores from a movie called “Sinister”. We chose these scores because they have a very mysterious and eerie sound to them. There are random noises throughout all the scores which gives the blog that mysterious feel. Also they switch the speaker output for some of the sections of the scores, which means that the sounds fade from right to left to right and so on. It gives you the feeling that something is all around you not just in front of you. The music also goes from soft to loud to soft again very much and at one point there of voices, moaning and almost whispering in your ear, an unknown language until the voice starts screaming. We believe because there are so many random noises that it keeps you on edge the whole time. Just as Poe does, he tried to keep a dark, ghostly feel throughout all his stories.