Commentary on flash fiction

Commentary on flash fiction story

During the choice of choosing the theme for my Halloween story, it was quite difficult because our audience was only about 13 years old. Therefore they have quite a lot of knowledge about the world but I didn’t think it was fair to really scare them.

Something  I really considered was the name choice of the characters, because the scene was actually Hallowee night I wanted to give it the whole scary feeling to it. This is why i choose the name 'Mary' to represent Bloody Mary, and I also choose the name 'Ripper' for the evil plant in the story to represent Jack Ripper.

The purpose of my flash fiction was based around the film little shop of horrors, i included some of the elements from the film. This is because I knew this film wasn't really a horror film, therefore it would be appropriate for the younger audience that we were targeting.

In parts of the story I included some speech, this is because I wanted the audience to feel engaged and feel part of the story. Therefore it hopefully added to the dramatic and scary parts of it.

Overall it was quite hard to try and think what to include because we had a certain age range to write for, but this made it a bit easier than having to generalise it to everybody. This helped me to keep the context the same.