1. Audio Story
Task 2: Initial Responses

2. Initial Responses and Idea Generation
Log your initial thoughts regarding the set brief in this document
What stories could you use? How do you feel about the different potential
formats? What are the positives about this project? What could be some difficult
aspects? Etc
Use the format on this document to guide this response – some are set as a
question on one slide, but you should look to add further slides as necessary

3. Which stories have you researched and looked
as potential starting points?
• The legend of Bloody Mary
• Jack The Ripper
• The Yorkshire ripper
• The legend of Baba Yaga

4. Which research into existing products has been the
most useful? Includes examples and explanations
• I have research several podcasts/ video essays related to true crime/
paranormal events. Most of them I've been familiar with, e.g. Hollywood
Crime Scene, a podcast that covers crime cases related to the world of
celebrities, or a YouTube channel called Eleanor Neale, where each week a
different case of true crime from all around the world is being covered by a
female host. An episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved where the hosts explore the
story of the demonic Goatman's bridge was a particular piece of my
research that inspired my later work to be focused on paranormal stories
rather than truecrime.

5. Which production format [drama, narration,
etc] do you feel fits your idea best and why?
At the moment, I feel like Narration would be the best format to
choose for my production. In opposition to drama format, narration
could be recorded fully with only one person. It does not really require
the narrator to have much acting abilities.
That does not mean, of course, that I will not try and include elements
of drama to my final project. Depending on whether I will manage to
involve actors to record some lines, I feel comfortable saying that
switching between both formats and merging them into one would be
my desirable outcome.

6. Which story have you settled on and why?
• I have decided to cover the story of Wendigo, a Canadian flesh-eating demon.
After researching for a specific legend to read out for my project, I have found a
perfect one both theme and length wise.
The original thought was to create a more of an informative script, briefly
exploring and explaining the mythological creature and beliefs surrounding it.
However, after finding an actual scary story about Wendigo, I figured it will suit
the horror genre more and could be transformed into more of a drama like
project.
The idea for the subject of my work itself, the Wendigo creature, originated from
my own personal interests as I enjoy exploring different mythologies and aspects
of them in modern pop culture. I knew of Wendigo and thought it might be just
the chilling story I need for the horror themed project.

7. If you had to sell your story quickly, what is the
title and the logline?
Wendigo- The Fleasheater of the Canadian Forests
two men, thirsty for money, set out to hunt in the depths of Canadian
wilderness, where, in the cold and darkness of the forest, an ancient
evil awaits.

8. What ideas have you had for sound effects,
narration and storytelling?
• I was mainly focusing on what sort of music I could use in my project in
order to make it more lively (as well as try to distract the listener from
focusing on my narration too much). I have considered creating a
background music for my product in garageband, I have also thought of
creating a simple composition on a piano.
• Apart from the music, I thought of sound effect I could create myself using
folie. So far, after reading my script, I have decided to include a fire noise,
perhaps the sound of a foot stomping on the ground or a noise of a tent
being open. However I don't really want to include too many sound effects
of that sort, as I would rather enrich my narration with music.

9. Initial feelings…how do you feel about the
project currently?
Overall, I'm excited for the project. I enjoy the amount of freedom I've been
given with the subject of my work. I think that a horror genre will be fun to
explore from an audio only perspective.
I'm a little worried when it comes to the narration aspect of my product,
although I have decided to record the narration myself, mainly out of
accessibility reasons, I am a little anxious about performing using only my
voice. The reason being my accent and the fact that English is my second
language.

10. What other research do you think you need to
do?
Now that I know that the focus of my project will be drama-like story about
paranormal happenings, rather than purely education focused true crime
cases. I should also start thinking of potential actors that might appear in my
audio project and if there is a way for me to organise all the planned folie
sounds to be made and featured in my product.