Target Audience

The purpose of the storytelling is to encourage people to have a positive mind when they are in the worse situation and develop self-confidence for the user. Besides, this story to give a moral value of understanding the fearful and knowing how to handle difficulties with positive mind. 

Therefore, this project is to targeted on teenager with the age range of 12 - 17 who having depression and with negative mind. From the research in CBN.com noted that a recent national survey reported that many teens experience feelings of depression and sadness that often go untreated. There have four types of depression such as Reactive Depression , Bipolar Disorder, Dysthymic Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. However in this case, Reactive Depression is least serious however it will involving serious case such as loss of a parent or as relatively inconsequential as a rejection or slight from a good friend. 

As teenage is a stage of growing process from child into adult, adolescent mind will seems to have changes especially on an orphan that abandoned by their parents. I have found out the symptoms of what abandoned child that has faced in Wikipedia. 

Link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned_child_syndrome

Some other research that I found in Buzzle. There are 5 visible types of symptoms that abandoned child facing.

Sickness: Due to the mental stress of being abandoned, the child is more likely to fall sick very often. He would refuse to participate in general activities because of his mental state and inability to deal with rejection and ignorance.

Lack of Concentration: The child will find it very difficult to concentrate on school activities and studies. His mind would be so distracted towards the chaos in his personal (family) life, that he may not even feel like doing anything else. This will result in low grades and poor performance in school.

Negativity: As the child is facing ignorance and rejection, he will develop negative emotions and thoughts. He may get angry over petite issues and become very frustrated. 

Disorders: The child may not eat properly or even starve himself due to depression. He may also suffer from sleep disorders like insomnia.

Behavior: A child who feels abandoned, often regresses to habits like crying, daydreaming, bed-wetting, thumb sucking, clinging to a certain toy, blanket or pillow, throwing tantrums, etc. If he has been abandoned by one parent, he fears being abandoned by the other parent too. He also tends to develop a fear of darkness.

Other than that, in the research of  Personalityresearch.org, abandon child who having negatively personality that could also facing the cognitive theory of depression. Where according to this theory, negative thinking that greatly affected the likelihood of developing a depression and maintaining it during stressful events in a person's life. They are more vulnerable, perceive themselves in a negative and depressive context. 

However, to helps a person to recover from abandonment and pulling them out of depression, one of the therapy that I found out is Cognitive Behavior Therapy. This treatment might help me to develop and refine my storyline.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy has involving three steps:

1. Identifying your negative thoughts. With anxiety disorders, situations are perceived as more dangerous than they really are. To someone with a germ phobia, for example, shaking another person’s hand can seem life threatening. Although you may easily see that this is an irrational fear, identifying your own irrational, scary thoughts can be very difficult. One strategy is to ask yourself what you were thinking when you started feeling anxious. Your therapist will help you with this step. 
2. Challenging your negative thoughts. In the second step, your therapist will teach you how to evaluate your anxiety-provoking thoughts. This involves questioning the evidence for your frightening thoughts, analyzing unhelpful beliefs, and testing out the reality of negative predictions. Strategies for challenging negative thoughts include conducting experiments, weighing the pros and cons of worrying or avoiding the thing you fear, and determining the realistic chances that what you’re anxious about will actually happen.
3. Replacing negative thoughts with realistic thoughts. Once you’ve identified the irrational predictions and negative distortions in your anxious thoughts, you can replace them with new thoughts that are more accurate and positive. Your therapist may also help you come up with realistic, calming statements you can say to yourself when you’re facing or anticipating a situation that normally sends your anxiety levels soaring.

Link: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/anxiety_therapy.htm

User behaviour

This project will targeted on teenager who likes to surf internet. From the chart and statics in this website :http://www.fastcompany.com/1536758/pew-survey-teens-love-facebook-hate-blogging-are-always-online-and-dont-use-twitter

It shows that teenagers from the age of 12 - 17 are being active in participants online. 

From the research article in http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/engage-blogs/engage-blogs/Research-snapshots/Aussie-teens-online 

Ten out of nine teenagers that usually access to internet with devices such as smartphone, computer and tablet. Therefore, teenager use computer more than other device.  

However, majority of the teenager that went online for entertainment activities.