Developing Personas and discussing Horror Movies

It's hard to schedule a meeting when people have wildly different hours. We had this problem, and we solved it… Drumroll please… With Technology! Skype and Google Docs is a marvelous thing, that let us do things together without actually being in the same room.

We had some basic ideas when we started: We knew we wanted the personas to be a female guide in her twenties and an older male visitor. During the meeting we sat with open mics and brainstormed. Basically, everyone typed their thoughts, just to get them down on paper, and then we gradually worked it into something resembling a coherent work.

It was a bit difficult to keep the personas and scenarios loose enough to be interesting, and yet focused enough to actually be useful. There were some flights of fancy (there is an alternate ending for Katarinas first scenario, that will be posted below…) but I think it was tied together rather nicely.


If only she had a… rifle. To show them something cool like that might calm them down and get them interested. Katrina’s hand grabs the nearest showcase and smashes it to the ground. The sword, lying under the shards pierce her long fingers, but it’s worth it.  The sword, glistening in the spotlights from the ceiling, feels so good in her hands. She raises it above her head… And the kids were bored no more. Then she woke up. :)