The Orchard Files - Analog horror – Episode 3
Project Overview
📋 OVERVIEW
This is a short-form analog horror video project, created for fun and experimentation. It was originally inspired by a single AI-generated image and has since evolved into a creative exploration of storytelling, visual design, and audio editing.
This episode serves as a fictional public safety training video from the 1980s, warning about a supernatural threat known as "The Smiling Demon." The tone is VHS-era educational, slowly unraveling into something much darker.
This is a non-commercial project intended for upload to YouTube as part of an analog horror series titled The Orchard Files.
⚠️ AI USAGE DISCLAIMER ⚠️This project actively experiments with the integration of AI-generated visuals, sound design, and scripting to explore how analog horror storytelling might evolve when paired with new tools.
I’m exploring human voice performances to bring heart to this project, and your performance is what gives this episode its emotional weight.
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The Narrator is the primary voice of the PSA-style video. Their voice starts off calm, educational, and detached — like a 1980s government training video. As the script progresses, slight glitches, tonal shifts, and uneasy undertones hint at something much more sinister beneath the surface. This is the most important role in the episode.
Role Type: Lead
- english
- male young adult
- Male Adult (30s50s)
- american (midwest)
- broadcast
- calm
- authoritative
- midwest american
- psa
- wyomingite
- male adult
- male senior
This instructional recording has been prepared by the Department of Public Wellness in accordance with community safety protocols enacted April 17th, 1986.
In all confirmed incidents, smiling back has been shown to diffuse potential risk.
Though rare, persistent sightings have been associated with anxiety, facial stress, and psychosomatic symptoms. This is no cause for concern.
A calm, official-sounding dispatcher heard over brief, eerie police radio transmissions. This character grounds the surreal events in realism and adds urgency through subtle concern in their tone. Their delivery should feel natural, like real emergency communications, not overly theatrical.
Character Traits:
Emotionally neutral but sharp and aware
Uses concise, professional language
Hints of unease during later transmissions
- english
- male adult
- midwest
- female adult
- calm
- american (midwest)
- wyomingite
- neutral
- gundham tanaka
- radio
Unit 17, please respond to a 10-57 in progress—Oak Street and Teller. Caller reports unusual behavior.
Subject description: Male. Tall. No shirt. Just… smiling. Copy?
All units be advised. Do not engage if the subject maintains eye contact. Repeat—do not engage.
This voice appears in a coroner’s audio log or taped autopsy report. The tone is clinical and factual, though subtle discomfort can creep in as the details of the case become increasingly bizarre.
Character Traits:
Professional, composed, logical
Unnerved—but keeping it together
Speaks in slow, deliberate terms
- english
- Adult (40s60s)
- Detached
- wyomingite
- american (midwest)
- Dry
- midwest
- medical
- male adult
- calm
Autopsy report: Subject 1-8-7. Male. Approximately twenty-six. Found face-down in residence hallway.
Facial musculature torn at the corners of the mouth… as if forced into prolonged smiling.
Eyes fixed. No external trauma. Cause of death… unclear.
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