Sunday, September 8, 2013

Brainstorming Media Project # 6

A fictional linear narrative following the main character, whose job is working as an agent for the NSA. He is trying to infiltrate a terrorist sleeper cell who unknowingly tipped off their activity while recruiting new initiates. He will go undercover into their initiate program. He will gain their trust. During this period he discovers they have a plan to release a chemical weapon at a major college campus during a whole student body convocation. Please, anybody who might be reading this I am putting a disclaimer in this text because of the sensitive nature of what I am writing, do not take this the wrong way. This is a hypothetical scenario as part of a school project for a media program class. While the student is working on this brainstorming project, he is mistakenly arrested for even writing about the sleeper cell scenario because he posted it online. The school dismisses him from attendance, expelled, and he is being held without bail or trial at a secret location. It is all a case of mistaken intention, of course his freedom of speech is being quelled and he is being punished without due process. Is this even something possible in today's fearful environment? It has happened already and it will happen again. We tend not to think of what may happen as long as it isn't something that could happen to us.

1 comment:

  1. It seems like you switched the angle of your project after your disclaimer. Both interesting takes on the same subjects but it does not read like one cohesive idea.

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