Intense

INTENSE

Target Audience/ Genre

GENRE

DARK COMEDY, GAG

Stacia Lowery

N190 Spring 2010

2-20-2010

Target Audience and Attitudes

Target Audience Analysis

Gender: Male

Age: 13-30

Interests: Ebaum’s World, Movies, Twitter, Gaming, Internet, Reading, Music, Skateboarding, Magic the Gathering

Habits: Eating fast food, Taking naps, Living with their parents, Short attention span, ADD

Other things they like to watch or read: Sports, Documentaries, Reality TV,

Sitcoms, Pornography

What they do in their spare time: Hang out with friends, Surfing the web,

Things they buy: Fast food, Handheld Gaming Devices, Xbox 360,

Where they live: With their parents, Apartments, Rented Homes, College dorms.

Income level: 0 - $25,000

Maximum education level: Bachelor degree

Anything else that is relevant: Intelligence level could vary from Below Average (appreciate simple humor such as the gag ending), Average(appreciate the juxtaposition between his fear and the birds on the power line) To Above Average (appreciate the complexity of his phobia and the irony of him getting killed when he finally lets his guard down after being so suspicious throughout the story)

Death From Above

A man has been terrified of power lines since he was a child. Because of his phobia, he rarely leaves the house. One crisp winter’s day he wakes up at precisely 8;00 A.M. and goes to put his cereal into a bright red bowl. After close inspection of his refrigerator, he realizes that he is out of milk. He looks tenuously from his bowl to a hanging power line outside his window and exhales sharply with a slight grimace on his face. He knows that he will soon have to make the trip to the supermarket. He walks on the sidewalk looking suspiciously at the power lines overhead. His fear is juxtaposed by the happy frolicking birds that are balancing perfectly on the thin wires. The air is stingingly cold but the sun still shines behind the clouds as some of the winter ice begins to melt. As he crosses the street to approach the store, he hears a cracking sound and looks overhead as a wire snaps and scrapes the ground before his feet, barely missing him. He heaves a huge sigh of relief and makes his way into the store. As he walks under the awning an icicle falls on his head and he dies, never having known that he had chosen the wrong subject for his intense phobia.

Obituary for Dusty Lane

Dusty Archibald Lane was born on April 20, 1981 in Schenectady New York to Sky and Tabitha Lane. He graduated from high school at the top of his class and went on to pursue a degree in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following the tragic death of his father due to a faulty power line, Dusty Developed an acute phobia for hanging wires which affected him for the rest of his life. He worked from home as a telemarketer for Anthem Insurance company and had a shining sales record. Dusty passed away on January 6^, 2010 at the young age of twenty-nine. An unlikely accident occurred involving a large hanging icicle and a slick sidewalk. He will be sorely missed, survived by his mother Tabitha. Services for Dusty Lane will be held at our lady of solitude cathedral on January 9, 2010.

Anamatic Story

February 2, 2010

A man has been terrified of power lines since he was a child. Because of his phobia, he rarely leaves the house. One winter’s day he wakes up and realizes that he is out of milk. This forces him to go outside to the supermarket. He walks on the sidewalk looking suspiciously at the power lines overhead. As he crosses the street to approach the store, a wire snaps and scrapes the ground before his feet, barely missing him. He heaves a huge sigh of relief and makes his way into the store. As he walks under the awning an icicle falls on his head and kills him.