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The saturday meeting never happened, as Zoe ended up in hospital. However she said we could continue to work through Facebook. I wasn’t super certain but a couple weeks later and it’s working pretty well. I wrote one script – a very traditional sort of viral story about a home invasion by a creepy unknown creature. Zoe really liked it and in a couple days she’d come up with a proto-version of what the finished product would look like. It was very impressive!

I assumed we were sticking with the first script since she’d used that, but a few days later I got a message with a story suggestion. Zoe’s tutor had come up with an idea she wanted us to try. It was, and I quote

hey honey i had a feedback tutorial yesterday and my tutor suggested maybe we did a spooky story on a retail theme like a haunted shop hangers swishing , tills opening on there own that kind of thing, what do you think ?

Now, while I try to keep an open mind about these things I was skeptical of this suggestion. Honestly I couldn’t see anything scary in the idea of ‘tills opening on their own’ and I also wasn’t sure how it would work with the format we’d chosen. However, I sat down and committed myself to trying to write it. Unexpectedly I finished it in a single sitting.

The story I came up with was set in a department store haunted by a troupe of dead children in animal masks. I stole the visual from the film ‘the orphanage’ but I’m hoping nobody notices. Overall I’m quite pleased with the story. It doesn’t have a big twist like the last one but it’s a bit more sustained and the character is a tad less 2D.

Right now I’m putting off going back and editing because I know it’s a mess! However I need to soon. I wanted to incorporate sound/pictures but Zoe didn’t think that would be possible and I didn’t want to argue with her.

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For homework I created three character sheets with short concepts of things. Two serious and one more jokey. Zoey has put some preliminary artwork up on facebook and it looks awesome! We’re meeting on sat. I’m going to try and have a script/detailed plot outline for then.

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Met with Zoe in the Playhouse yesterday morning. I was quite nervous but pleasantly surprised – though we’re very different types of artists (she’s more focused on fashion and culture) we share a no-bullshit attitude to creative work. She showed me her dissertation, which is in the form of a blog, and told me about the work she’s done on her course, the culmination of which has been her basically producing her own brand of clothing. I told her about some of my own stuff and we found an interesting intersection in her studies into social media and my own experiments with horror online. We swapped a few horror stories about episodes of stalking and harassment we’d experienced and the germ of an idea started to form.

By the end of the meeting we had a concept: for the exhibition, we’d try to create a horror story that plays out solely on a phone. I’d write it and she’d do the technical side. We parted ways both pretty chuffed and while waiting for some mates I started to come up with some concepts. Zoe is very interested in our generation and how we use social media, so I want to incorporate that somehow, find some deep fear or worst-case-scenario to exploit. I’m very excited but nervous to live up to the idea! I’ve started plotting out a possible concept in my notebook. I think invasion of privacy should be key. Maybe highlight the many things we take for granted.

Anyway, exciting times! We’re meeting again next week. Should be good, I’m feeling really positive.

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These were the characters I came up with for the craic

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This was the first script I wrote for us to test the concept out

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