The document discusses initial ideas for an audio story project, including potential stories to adapt (such as "The Roaming Wraith" ghost story), a preferred narration format, settling on "The Roaming Wraith" story, ideas for the title, logline, narration, sound effects, and some pros/cons and worries about the project. The document is for logging initial thoughts and gathering additional research 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. Ghost Stories
and Creepy
Pasta Project
By Ben Brown

4. Stick Man
• In the 18th century at 35 stone gate,
there was an old man who was in
constant fear of his house being
robbed (he couldn’t do anything
because he was always on his bed).
To scare any robbers off, the old
man waited for the minster to strike
midnight, he would constantly knock
his cane on the bedroom wall all
night long every night until he died.
When future families moved in they
claimed to still hear knocking in the
old man’s bedroom to this day…

5. Roaming Wraith
• Marmaduke Buckle was born in 1697 with
many handicap disabilities, this made the locals
think he was doing witchcraft. Buckle never left
the house during his life, but one day he
decided to end it all. Buckle drew his birthdate
on that days date (1715) before hanging
himself from one of the house beams.
• Even though duke is long dead, some say that
his soul still inhabits the house (now La Piazza
restaurant). There is little evidence to support
this, but someone claimed that he pushed
them down the stairs and flickered the
restaurant lights on and off. However this could
just be all a coincidence… right?

6. The Dirty Duke
• During sometime in the 18th century, George
Villers, first Duke of Buckingham, constantly spent
his time around the Cock and Bottle pub. He
earned the name of Dirty Duke by constantly
seducing the waitresses of the pub and “taking
care of them” all over the pubs property. Villers
decided to spy on the land lady of the pub while
she was taking a shower, however the land lord
caught him and killed him.
• The pubs still exists to this day besides for all the
“monkey business” that went on there. Female
patrons claim that Villers’ ghost spies on them in
the women’s toilet. I supposed death didn’t stop
Villers, he just became more disgusting.

7. Russian Sleeping Experiment
• At the start of the Cold War, the Russian army kidnapped five American politicians to be test
subjects for an experimental weapon: gas that stops sleep. The subjects were taken to a laboratory
and placed in a cramped living space that could only be monitored by sound surveillance and a glass
wall for scientists to look through. The gas would be pumped into the room nonstop for 15 to 20
days. If the subjects didn’t fall asleep in that time, they would be set free.
• The first five days were uneventful until one of the test subjects began to scream for hours while the
others blocked the glass wall with paper covered in their poop. Only able to hear them, the
scientists sent the guards to investigate. One of the scientists spoke through the speaker and said
that if the subjects didn’t interfere with the guards’ investigation they would be set free, however
they replied “We don’t want to be free…” The gas got turned off before the guards entered, this
unleashed vast rage amongst the subjects, the guards went into the cell, however what they saw
was horrifying.
• One test subject was dead, while the others had many pieces of their flesh and organs ripped out.
The gas seemed to have turned the test subjects into cannibals. The subjects put up a ferocious
fight, but they were caught at the cost of a soldiers life. The test subjects begged for the gas to come
back, however three subjects went to sleep and died after experimentation. The last subject was
put back into the room with a scientist. However, the scientist revolted because he didn’t want to be
locked in with the subject. The scientist questioned the subject about what happened to him. The
subject said that nightmares are sentient forces that take over the body and only sleep represses
them. The scientist killed the last subject, leaving the rest of the story unknown.

8. Jeff the Killer
• Jeffery Woods was born and raised in America, he lived a normal
life until his family moved to a small town when he was a
teenager. Waiting for their ride to school, Jeff and his brother
were approached by bullies at the bus stop. The three bullies
robbed them at knife point, but Jeff fought back and forced them
to retreat, however, Jeff made a powerful enemy that day.
• Jeff attended a birthday party on his mother’s behalf, but the
bullies showed up for pay back. A fight broke out between them,
Jeff got covered in alcohol while two of the bullies were killed in
self defense. The last bully through a lighter at Jeff, setting him
ablaze.
• Jeff survived but got third degree burns this gave him extreme
brain damage which led to insanity. After regaining conciseness,
Jeff went on a killing spree, he killed his parents first, and then,
the rest of the town. Jeff killed many people until one of his
victims killed him and avenged her parents.

9. Slenderman
and his
brothers
• By far the most iconic, Slenderman is an entity that roams
the American woods and kills any people who get lost in his
territory, mostly children. Slenderman comes from a species
of entities who are his brothers, they are:
• Splendorman: Unlike his brother, Splendorman likes to bring
happiness and joy to people he comes across.
• Sexual Offendorman: His name says enough… moving on!
• Tenderman: There’s not much to say about Tenderman
except that he has a strong fashion sense.
• Dark fact: Two girls believed that Slenderman was real. They
brought a friend into their local woods and stabbed her
several times, they hoped to kill her and give the corpse to
Slenderman as a sacrifice. The victim survived though and
her attempted murderers went to a mental asylum.

10. Which research into existing products has
been the most useful? Includes examples
and explanations
• The Russian Sleeping Experiment,
Doctor Who: Afterlife and the Roaming
Wraith were all the most useful:
• The Russian Sleeping Experiment gave
me the most inspiration because of it’s
unique and different story.
• Doctor Who: Afterlife (even though
convoluted) had an interesting and
other-worldly feeling which can be used
for my scary story.
• Roaming Wraith was the best ghost
story I could find, a man who's been
inside his home his entire life, and now
refusing to leave can be used as the plot
for my scary story.

11. Which production format
[drama, narration, etc] do you
feel fits your idea best and why?
• I think narration will fit my idea the best
because most scary stories are told
through first person. I can make a clearly
told story through a narration that isn’t
many voices and sound affects you can’t
tell apart.

12. Which story have you
settled on and why?
• I choose Roaming Wraith for my
scary story. It has the most detail
of a ghost story, and it’s based in
York. A house haunted by a
cripple ghost is good on its own,
but there’s so much more I can
add to it. I think this ghost story
would have a narrator (even
though it’s based on true events),
all of this will fit well together.

13. If you had to
sell your story
quickly, what is
the title and
the logline?
• Title: The devourer of souls!
• Logline: The House of Wraith whales with hunger
for human souls!

14. What ideas have you had for sound
effects, narration and storytelling?
• Narration: I will be the narrator of the story, I
will tell the story in a first person perspective.
• Storytelling: The person that I’m playing who’s
telling the story will be in the past tense. He’s
already been through this experience, but he
wants to warn people of the creature that lurks
inside the Wraith House. As him, I will describe
what is happening through his experience and
then his narrow escape.
• Sound effects: footsteps, key jangling, door
opening, a building that’s struggling to stay up,
laughter, screaming, voice of narrator, voice of
warning spirits, voices of demon and souls
within his body, waling, scratching, drooling,
licking lips, whispering, heavy breathing,
sniffling…

15. Initial feelings…how do you feel
about the project currently?
• Pros: A new idea of a unified consciousness and a
house that is a living being makes an intriguing
story.
• Cons: I don’t have enough experience in audio
and my plot sounds too long.
• Excitement: I’ve had this obsession of a unified
consciousness for a while, I can use this
opportunity to bring it to life! I can also gain
experience in audio for future projects.
• Worries: I fear that I won’t be able to make a goof
project because of my lack of audio experience. I
worry that my plot is too convoluted to
understand.

16. What other research do
you think you need to do?
Remaining Research: Cast for ghosts, look
at more scary stories for inspiration,
Narrator skills, audio techniques, audio
apps that can be used, suitable sound
effects, app for sound effects…