The Uncanny.

The term Uncanny is a theory which has been developed over the years by psychologist such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Jentsch and Sigmund Freud.  They described Uncanny as a mixture of feelings such as discomfort, familiarity and terror a person feels when a once familiar object, person or situation becomes unfamiliar and strange.  
Sigmund Freud believed ''Once something that we are familiar with undergoes change, and appears to be estranged from its original meaning or contexts, that is when we become afraid, or at least wary, of it.''
A prime example of this comes from my own experience as a child, I had a room filled with pot dolls and one night had an uncomfortable notion that the dolls were moving amongst the shelves as though they were alive.
Another good example of Uncanny is shown in a photo I found from the internet. The photo shows a cake which matches the exact features of a humans head, the cake looks disturbingly real yet has a slice down the middle showing the inside of the head to be in fact cake. 

For our first task we have been asked to create our own small set within a group of three other people, within the set we shall be shooting and editing a sequence based around the idea of Uncanny. My group consists of Bryony, Ellen and Phoebe. The brief states that the sequence must contain one special effect and one visual effect using a green screen.