questions

we were told to ANSWER THE FOLLOWING questions on our blog regarding our project:

1. Who are you telling the story for (primary audience)?
—Ages 18-21

2. What reaction do you want?
—Shocked
—Disturbed
- Laughter

3. Is the narrative omniscient (all seeing) or restrictive (viewed from a single perspective)?
(If the narrative is restrictive, whose viewpoint are you using?)
—Omniscent

4. List the important events of the story.
—Establish that it is Halloween (calendar shot)
—Girl puts up decorations around her house
—Wanted to hang a puppet on a tree outside her house
—Lost her footing
—Ended up being the one hung instead
—While gasping for help, passersby thought it was just some prank and laughed it off
—She died.

5. Which aspects of the setting of the story are important (time of day… location… period of history…) and how do you intend to establish these important elements?
—During Halloween
—Night-time
—Location:
+ Start of film - inside the house
+ Climax and end of film - outdoors

6. What traits of the characters in your story are important and how do you intend to establish these traits?
—Girl
+ clumsy (when decorating indoors, she accidentally trips over things and drop or break items)

7. In what order are the important events (step 4 above) covered? Is it a strictly linear sequence of events in time, or does the story contain any flashbacks or other interruptions to the sequence of events?
—Linear

8. How does the story flow, does the pace change? Does it contain a surprise? Consider your answers to 1 and 2 above when making your response.
—Normal pacing
—Surprise:
+ when she accidentally lost her footing and got herself hung

9. How will you use sound to help all your responses to 5-8 above?
—Cheerful music at the start with occasional notes in the minor key? hmmm
—As the story progresses, the music becomes more and more sinister
—No music as she was gasping for help

10. Does your story need dialog?
(write out the dialog)
—Little dialogue
—More of gasping
—Dialogue:
+ "nooooo...please heeeelp me..."
+ *chokes* “Hee…..lp meeee……hel…hel….help….lp.” *dies*

yea so that's it!