Week 2&3 Planning for the Phantasmagoria Show

Throughout these two weeks, we were assigned our groups which we will be working with to create our Phnatasmagoria light shows. My group consists of seven people: Tereza, Amirreza, Danil and I (from art) and Dina, Avantika and Magnus (from music). Firstly we shared our English stories and ballads and decided what the main plot is going and all the surprises/ 'booms' that are going to happen in our story. These are some of the ideas that we came up with:

• The story is set in a school 
• The story is based in a realistic and normal place
• We didn't want to have any fantasy and not real characters so the story would be more believable
• We chose to only have two characters (having very little characters can help the story be more scary because all the attention is on one character)
• The story takes place at night which already puts the audience in an uncomfortable position

In these two weeks we also created a Blendspace account where we are going to post pictures, examples and sneak peaks of what we are creating. We have also have come up with our company name which is called 'Screams and Whispers', we decided that we wanted to call ourselves that because we like the bitter-sweet, what I mean by that it the word 'scream' and the word 'whisper' are two opposite things that you wouldn't do together, also those two words are negative word which would be used to describe something scary (Phantasmagoria Shows are meant to be scary shows).  

In addition to coming up with the plot of our story, my job was to actually write the story and add all of our ideas into one piece. So instead of simply writing it, when I had finished writing it, I asked my English teacher (Miss Kantretti) if she could take a few minutes and mark it and give me feedback to improve the story and make it even more scarier (that has helped us a lot). Now the only thing that we have to do with story is turn it into a script so the narrator knows what to say and each individual character knows when and what to say. Lastly before getting separated into Music and Art we came up with the sound effects and downloaded some apps that could help the Music group re-create some of the scary things using musical instruments.
Here are some pictures of us working in the lessons;

This is a sneak peak of our story 

Experimenting with sound effects 

Setting up the Blendspace account