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One-off Workshop: Making Spooky

Spookiness is not confined to Halloween. Even ordinary things can appear spooky – a stare, a laugh, a scream, a shadow, an invisible friend, a breath, a doll, déjà vu… This workshop uses proxemics to explore a character-driven situation that could be all in the mind. Or not.
Ordinary things can be spooky
Ordinary things can be spooky - Adobe Stock/Anita P Peppers

Working in collaborative groups, students develop story-making and characterisation skills through exploring/developing a scenario about a spooky situation and its consequences and share it with their peers.

a) In pairs, in a normal conversation about last night, A suddenly freaks B out by behaving in a spooky way. What is the outcome?

b) In the same pairs, B is discovered outside a house, behaving in a spooky way.

c) In the same pairs, A and B both think they have had this conversation before – déjà vu.

Strange, scary, frightening, fear-inducing, anxiety spreading, panic bringing, chilling, creeping, ghostly, mysterious, spine-chilling, unearthly, heart-stopping, shocking, supernatural or weird.

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