Students will launch the Halloween blues-and-ghost-story project by experiencing how minor-key blues, folklore, and history create mood, then make first draft artistic choices for a short prototype they will build on in later phases.

Students will gather audience evidence about what makes a blues-and-ghost-story performance feel haunting, test assumptions against real responses, and organize their findings into empathy artifacts that will guide later design choices.

Students will turn audience and community research into a focused design challenge, draft a design brief for their blues-and-ghost-story piece, generate multiple distinct concept directions, use structured peer critique to revise their ideas, and select one evidence-based direction to carry into prototyping.

Students will build and test low-fidelity blues-and-ghost-story performance prototypes, gather audience evidence from peers and community users, complete two revision cycles, and prepare a concise validation story that shows how feedback shaped their artistic decisions.

Students will present their finished blues-and-ghost-story performance to an authentic audience, gather and interpret audience feedback about mood, time period, and artistic choices, and reflect on how their revisions and final decisions shaped the exhibition piece.