The document summarizes the initial research and planning for an audio story project about ghost stories. It discusses two ghost stories that were researched as potential sources of inspiration, involving a little girl haunting a building after falling to her death. The document proposes combining these two stories into one narrative that uses flashbacks and sound effects to depict the girl's death in the past and hauntings in the present. It considers using a dramatic format with re-enactments rather than narration. Some initial sound effect ideas are provided. While not the type of project the author typically enjoys, they express excitement around creating it but also hesitation about achieving their vision. More research on sound effects and timing is acknowledged as needed.

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?
• I researched the Stonegate ghost story about how a teenage girl was using a
changing room and allegedly seen a little girl come into the stall. She asked her to
leave and the little girl walked through the wall, staff later found out that there
was a doorway that existed once where the little girl had walked into.
• I also researched a ghost story about a girl around 6 years of age who fell to her
death on the staircase and it is believed that she haunted this building during the
twentieth century. This girl could be heard walking up the staircase and also seen
sitting on the counter.

4. Which research into existing products has been the
most useful? Includes examples and explanations
• Both stories that I have researched have been useful for me because I am
going to combine them both and create one ghost story. It will link good
together because both stories include a little girl haunting the building and
I can do a flashback to where the Victorian girl died and add sound affects
of her running up the stairs, the sound of her falling to her death. I will
then bring it back to this century and do the sound affects of the changing
rooms, the scraping of the hangers against the rail, the teenage girl asking
the little girl to leave and also her footsteps walking away.

5. Which production format [drama, narration,
etc] do you feel fits your idea best and why?
• My production format will be a drama because it will be performed in a
re-enactment way rather than a document and someone narrating the story.
I chose this because I think it’s the most interesting one and if you do it right
you can actually picture what is going on just through hearing the sounds.

6. Which story have you settled on and why?
• I chose both stories that I researched and I am going to combine them and
make it into one story. I did this because they both link together with the
little girls who haunt the buildings and I think it will sound good because I
will do a flashback from 100 years ago to this century.

7. If you had to sell your story quickly, what is the
title and the logline?
A young Victorian girl who fell to her death in the twentieth century, seen
and heard to be haunting the building still to this day.

8. What ideas have you had for sound effects,
narration and storytelling?
• For sound effects I am going to use violins for the effect of a flashback
going back 100 years. I am going to create sounds of footsteps and coat
hangers pulling against a rail. I will do a voiceover of a teenage girl saying
”what are you doing in here, please leave”. I might also include the girl
falling to her death so I might do sounds of her stumbling and falling so I
will get a watermelon and smash it to the floor or something like that.

9. Initial feelings…how do you feel about the
project currently?
• Although I am not interested in this part of the projects and It Isn't
something I want to do in the future I am quite excited to film it because it
does actually seem fun to create but I am abit hesitant because it might
not turn out how I want or imagine it and it might be a lot more harder to
do than I think.

10. What other research do you think you need to
do?
• I think I need to research how to do these sound affects and the location
and timing of everything needs to be perfect. I will also have to look up
some more I can use because the ones that I currently have right now
might not be enough.