The document provides initial thoughts and research from a student for an audio story project. It includes potential story ideas that were looked at, such as a haunted 18th century building and St. Crux Church in York. The student settles on the idea of creating a soundscape telling the story of someone being stalked in a haunted house. They feel this format will allow them to get creative with sound effects. Research into existing audio stories and haunted house sounds is mentioned. The student expresses positive initial feelings about the project and notes additional research may be 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?
• 18 Stonegate (currently jack wills)
• A six year old Victorian girl who fell to her death on the
staircase has said to have haunted this building during the
twentieth century.
• One story says the ghost is a doctors daughter and dates to
when this building was a private residence.
• During one of the doctor's dinner parties, the curious girl
emerged from her top floor bedroom and tried to peer over
the banister to see who was in attendance when she lost her
balance and fell.
• The girl could be heard ascending the staircase and was seen
sitting upon a shop counter when a tearoom operated on the
site.

4. Which stories have you researched and looked
as potential starting points?
St crux church.
• The remains of St Crux church now form the chapel that stands in the Shambles, where
an on-duty police officer once heard funeral music playing from the building late at
night.
• As he went to investigate, the doors opened and people could be heard leaving the
service - but there was no-one to be seen.
• The church was said to have a couple more frequent phantom visitors, one of whom
was a tall man with a pale face who would stare out of the windows in the early hours
of the morning.
• The other ghost took the form of a female figure in a shroud, and would follow people
passing the church at night, either along Fossgate and vanish as when reaching Foss
Bridge, or via St. Andrew Gate, fading away when nearing Spen Lane.
• It has also been stated that sometimes during service, even in the day-time, the very
white face of a man has been seen peering in at one of the windows. This has
happened when watch has been kept outside the church, and no one has been seen by
the watchers at the window in question.

5. Which stories have you researched and looked
as potential starting points?
• Theatre Royal, St. Leonard's Place.
• The sighting of a spirit at Theatre Royal is said to bring good luck to the performers.
• The grey entity, known as The Grey Nun, has been spotted around the building,
believed to have been bricked up alive for seeing angels when a hospital existed on the
site.
• Staff consider it a good omen for any production currently showing if the grey nun
appears.
• Other reports have said music has been heard coming from the closed theatre late at
night, as well as sightings of a wraithy actor who died in a duel nearby.

6. Which stories have you researched and looked
as potential starting points?
• Treasurer's House, Minster Yard
• In 1953 Harry Martindale was working on a ladder in the cellar of the building when a
group of Roman soldiers walked past him along the old Roman Road which ran through
the basement. Harry was so shocked that he fell from his ladder.
• The man was able to describe the soldiers' uniforms and equipment, and where they
entered the basement, and never once chanced his story before his death in 2015.
• Despite being told his description of the soldiers was wrong, and the uniforms and
equipment did not match that which was used by the invaders, local archaeological
discoveries later proved Harry's observations correct.
• Other ghosts that have made this house their home are that of a dog, a black cat, the
spirit of George Aislaby, who was killed in a duel, and the ghost of Frank Green, who
converted the interior into what it is today.

7. Which stories have you researched and looked
as potential starting points?
• The Forbidden by Clive Barker.
• Barker’s Books of Blood are justifiably credited with reshaping and redefining
horror in the 1980s. The fifth volume of the series begins with this short story,
which inspired the Candyman film franchise. Barker’s original is set on a bleak
decaying British council estate, an ill-thought-out attempt at utopian living
that has quickly fallen into disrepair and abandonment. The Forbidden is one
of the most atmospheric stories to deal with the legends that spring up in the
ruins of our cities, and still feels bang up to date, nearly 35 years after it was
written. The Forbidden is a short story by Clive Barker that inspired the movie
Candyman. It is a story about urban legends come to life, of how a
downtrodden community protects their own. Any that are familiar with
Barker’s writing knows that he has a way of creating a setting. The
juxtaposition of new construction that was the pride of the city that quickly
turned into abandoned flats and tagged walls are beautifully described from
the outset. His depiction of the dilapidated housing estate sets the mood
early, while in sharp contrast to Helen’s home life with Trevor clearly separates
the haves from the have nots.

8. Which stories have you researched and looked
as potential starting points?
• The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen
• This episodic novel is an example of Machen’s signature merging of ancient
pagan horrors with the teeming London of his day. Machen’s approach is
similar to what would become known as psychogeography, and his work
has influenced Iain Sinclair as well as Stephen King. In these streets we find
tales of human sacrifice in the suburbs, strange disappearances, and
atavistic fairy folk from pre-human times horrors we thought gone with our
rural past taking on new, urban form.

9. Which stories have you researched and looked
as potential starting points?
• Creatures of the Pool by
Ramsey Campbell
• British author Campbell (The House on Nazareth Hill ) uses his
native Liverpool as the setting for this unnerving suspense novel
with supernatural overtones. While Gavin Meadows of
Liverghoul Tours is guiding a group around the city, his eccentric
father, Deryck, disrupts the tour. When Deryck later goes
missing and the police show little interest, Gavin undertakes to
track Deryck down himself, bolstered by text messages
indicating that his father is still alive, somewhere. Gavin's
relations with the official force further deteriorate after he
reports seeing a body that vanishes before the cops show up.
Various characters explore the theory that Liverpool merchant
James Maybrick was actually Jack the Ripper, but this concern
with crimes committed in London never fuses satisfactorily with
the main story line, which suggests that a hidden truth lies
behind Liverpool's myths and legends.

10. Which stories have you researched and looked
as potential starting points?
• Bigfoot.
• The legend of Bigfoot begins in 1958, when journalist
Andrew Genzoli published a letter from a reader of the
paper he worked at. The letter detailed mysteriously large
footprints that loggers in northern California had found.
• Ever since then, the country has been hooked on trying to
spot this giant creature, particularly in the Pacific
Northwest, where reported sightings have been the most
frequent. There have been dozens of movies, books,
podcasts, and articles written about Bigfoot.
• Bigfoot has been called a "ferocious beast who attacks
loggers and hikers, or a gentle giant who wants to be left
alone. "

11. Which production format [drama, narration,
etc] do you feel fits your idea best and why?
• A soundscape in a haunted house of someone with a stalker.
• I feel like this will be fun to make as you have to make your own sounds and in the end it all fits together like a puzzle.
• There is many different things around my house that I can use to create different haunted house sounds.
• I can use a creaky floorboard to create creeks.
• I can also use a creaky door.
• I can use footsteps for the person who is following.

12. Which research into existing products has been the
most useful? Includes examples and explanations

13. Which story have you settled on and why?

14. If you had to sell your story quickly, what is the
title and the logline?

15. What ideas have you had for sound effects,
narration and storytelling?

16. Initial feelings…how do you feel about the
project currently?

17. What other research do you think you need to
do?