Study Task 2 - What's the story?

After the peer feedback on study task 1 where we collected information about the three different places, people thought the story about being paranoid of the 3 men (who each received phone calls at the same time) and people thinking we were spies were most interesting. From this I then decided to base my next research on the themes of paranoia and spies.

I came up with a couple of questions under each themes to further research:

Paranoia:

1. what is paranoia?
2. why do people get paranoid?
3. what makes people paranoid?
4. how does it make people feel?
5. How to ease the feeling/stop being paranoid?

Spies:

1. What do spies look like?
2. what do kids think spies look like?
3. what do kids think spies do and how they do this?
4. how to be a spy? - how kids think someone becomes a spy
5. is it okay to spy on someone?

How could I find the answers to these questions?

Primary research:

• to find out what kids think spies look like, do etc, I could get a group of kids together and interview them - I think the answers and ideas they'd come up with would be quite interesting and fun and therefore would make a quite interesting and entertaining book.

• I could conduct a questionnaire - for example, this would enable me to find the percentage of people who think spying is okay and is not.

• again I could interview people to find out what they think paranoia is, the affect it has on people etc.

Secondary research:

• Internet and books - using the internet and visiting the library for books to collect existing information - I think this would be a much more useful tool to find the answers to the paranoia questions instead of the spies one because they aren't as specific or more focused.