The Idea:
Original Planning:
Title Idea:
‘The Girl Who Cried Ghost’ or ‘Liar, Liar, Ghost’
Ideas:
Original Event:
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Alternate Event/Scenario:
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Peter yelling ‘wolf!’ as a joke
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A girl yelling ‘ghost!’ as a joke to scare the
other girls in the boarding house
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Peter getting in trouble for tricking the
villagers
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Everyone in the boarding house getting angry at
the girl for scaring them
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Peter spots a wolf that starts attacking all the
sheep and starts yelling ‘wolf!’
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A girl wakes up in the middle of the night to
find a white figure looking down at her, and starts freaking out and yelling
‘ghost!’ but the only response she gets is ‘shut up! I’m trying to sleep!’
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The villagers find Peter hiding in a tree and
find out that there was actually a wolf
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The other girls wake up in the morning and find
that the ‘girl who cried ghost’ is nowhere to be found.
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Alternate settings/locations:
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Whitby boarding house
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The ‘graveyard’ dorm
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Girl’s bedroom
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Unlit Hallway
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Creepy unlit bathroom
- Old Day
reception/music rooms
- Old
boardroom
- Old,
old hall/costume storage area
Ideas on changing/altering main character:
The girl is very much like Peter; she gets bored
very easily and likes to joke around. The only real difference is that she is a
girl and doesn’t have sheep.
Key Characters:
Protagonist:
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Nathalie Kors
Antagonist:
Paranormal being, 'Jane Table'
Paranormal being, 'Jane Table'
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Nathalie’s boredom and need to prank people.
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Plot Idea:
Nathalie is a boarder at St Hilda’s boarding school.
Nathalie is easily bored and enjoys playing pranks on, and scaring people. One
night, Nathalie is over her usual pranking; jumping out of peoples cupboards,
tying string to people doors and making them seem like they’re closing there
selves, and the other usual boring pranks. She decides that she is just going
to forget it and go to bed. The problem is, without finishing off her day with
a little prank, Nathalie can’t get to sleep because she feels as if he day is
‘incomplete’. It’s around 1:00am and Nathalie suddenly yells out, “Ah! It’s a
ghost! Help! Help!” Suddenly everyone
has woken up and starts screaming, only to hear Nathalie giggling in her room.
Satisfied with her pranking for the night, Nathalie falls asleep. The next
night, at around 12:00am, Nathalie decides to do the same prank again. She
let’s out a sharp, high-pitched scream and then yells “Ghost! Ghost!” Just like
before, everyone in her dorm woke up and began freaking out, turning lights on.
Again, they heard the feint sound of giggling coming from Nathalie’s room. This
time Nathalie has decided that that is enough and that people might be getting
really annoyed being woken up in the middle of the night. The next morning
Nathalie is checking her emails and she sees that she has a new email. She
opens the email and it reads ‘if you always tell lies, people will eventually
stop believing you; and then when you’re telling the truth for a change, when
you really need them to believe you, they won’t. Forward this to 5 people
within the next hour or a ghost will come and get you while you sleep.’ Like
any normal person, Nathalie disregarded this email and continued with her
everyday life. That night, everyone falls asleep. At 2:00am in the morning,
Nathalie has to get up to go to the toilet. She begins walking down the unlit
hallway, and towards the shining lights inside the toilets, just downstairs
from her dorm. As she walks in, the lights begin flickering and Nathalie begins
to panic. She then just realises that it must be something wrong with the power
and continues. She then begins feeling breathing on her neck whilst she is
washing her hands and then suddenly a feint whisper in her ear. “Run.” It
whispers. Straight away Nathalie starts screaming at the top of her lungs and
begins running down the hallway and back up the stairs to her dorm. “Ghost!
Ghost!” She yells as she makes her way up the stairs. The only answer she gets
this time is “Shut up Nathalie! I’m trying to sleep”. Nathalie just makes it to
the top of the stairs and yells “Help me pl…” Her last word is interrupted by a
loud thump. The next morning Nathalie is no where to be found, but a note is
found on the ground that reads “if you always tell lies, people will eventually
stop believing you; and then when you’re telling the truth for a change, when
you really need them to believe you, they won’t.”
Character Profiles:
Name: Nathalie Kors
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Age: 15
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Current Residence: St Hildas Boarding house
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Occupation: Student
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Talents/Skills: Scaring people/pranking
people
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Physical Characteristics:
Height: 159cm
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Weight: Average
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Race: Brittish
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Skin Colour: Fair
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Eye Colour: Blue
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Glasses/Contact Lenses:
None.
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Hair Colour: Brown/blonde
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Facial Shape: Roundy square
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Distinguishing Features: Braces
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Style (Elegant, shabby etc): Casual, shabby, comfy
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Dress/Clothing: Comfortable or school uniform.
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Mannerisms: Chilled pretty laid back
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Hobbies: One direction, guitar
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Favourite Sayings: “Whatever”
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Speech Patterns: Straight to the point
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Emotional Characteristics
Introvert or Extrovert: Both
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What is this Character’s Goal?
Nathalie's goal is
to be best at scaring/pranking people and to be the host of Australia's TV show
'Prank Patrol' when she's older.
Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes
Educational Background: Completing Year 10 at St
Hildas School
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Character's short-term goals
in life: Be the best at
scaring people
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How does Character see
himself/herself? Popular
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How does Character believe
he/she is perceived by others?
She thinks she’s amazing and everyone loves her. She also thinks she’s really
scary and funny.
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How self-confident is the
character?
She’s not as
confident around people she doesn’t know. Apart from this, with her friends
and peers she is fairly confident.
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Does the character seem
ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof?
Nathalie is
mainly ruled by logic, but when it comes to paranormal events she is ruled by
emotion and fear.
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What would most embarrass
this character?
If she spent a
lot of time setting up a huge prank and it failed in front of a big audience.
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Best Characteristics: Good at scaring.
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Worst Characteristics: Nathalie is usually very
annoying.
Antagonist Character Profile: |
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Name: Jane Table
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Age: Was 17 (Went missing and
was presumed dead in 1963)
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Current Residence: St Hildas Boarding house |
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Occupation: Spirit
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Talents/Skills: Jane was very intelligent, her abilities often prevented her from making many friends in life and as a consequence she struggles in death.
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Physical Characteristics:
Height: 147cm
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Weight: Average
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Race: Australian
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Skin Colour: Pale
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Eye Colour: Brown almost black
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Glasses/Contact Lenses: None.
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Hair Colour: Black
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Facial Shape: Long and thin
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Distinguishing Features: Long black hair
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Style (Elegant, shabby etc): Shabby and distressed, usually in white.
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Dress/Clothing: Always cloaked in a white gown, covering her body.
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Mannerisms: Didn’t socialize with
others much. Keeps to herself and acts very creepy.
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Hobbies: Interrupting the lives of the living from the spiritual world.
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Favourite Sayings: 'The grey mist that follows you knows your
destination before you do. But don't let it lead you to your peril.'
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Speech Patterns: Jane doesn’t speak much.
When she did contribute to a conversation she would go off topic easily. She
usually related everything to spirits, the dead or paranormal events.
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Emotional Characteristics
Introvert or Extrovert: Introvert
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What is this Character’s Goal?
To punish those
who lie compulsively.
Intellectual/Mental/Personality
Attributes and Attitudes
Educational Background: St Hildas School 1963
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Character's short-term goals
in life: Jane’s
short-term, long-term and eternal goal is to punish those who lie as a consequence of her wrong doings in her short life.
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How does Character see
himself/herself? Struggles to accept the fact she is dead and should move on, sees herself as an outcast to society as she died believing this.
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How does Character believe
he/she is perceived by others?
Jane knows she is an outcast. She plans on seeking revenge on those who
outcast her from society.
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How self-confident is the
character?
Jane was not
very confident at all. She kept all thoughts and opinions to herself as much
as possible and only talked when others talked to her.
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Does the character seem
ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof?
Jane was ruled
by her emotion and fears. She will always follow what her thoughts tell her
to do.
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What would most embarrass
this character?
Jane was always
embarrassed at school. She became use to it and resorted to just not talking
to anyone or doing anything they said, because of all of this she is very easily embarrassed by most joke sat her expense.
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Best Characteristics: Jane was very smart; she
excelled in all of her subjects.
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Worst Characteristics: She was strange in school, people avoided her as they felt she was sinister and her opinions were not of the normal variety.
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