Short Form Video
The aim for this project is to write, film and produce a short film with a duration of 10 minutes approx. The plot has already been written for us and split into the perspectives of six groups of characters. Our class has been split into six groups and each group has been assigned one perspective to write from. These groups consist of Documentary, Lecturer, Police, TV News, Students and Terrorists.
Our group has been given the role of the Terrorists.
The story shows a lecturer teaching his class about the dangers of mass surveillance whilst the police demonstrate the power of their surveillance equipment. The tv news shows the terrorist’s demands to release prisoners kept without trial under the anti terrorism act. The terrorists then abduct the lecturer in front of his own students and convince him that their cause is right, all this time the lecturer is keeping secret video logs on his phone. The police study the CCTV footage to try and identify the kidnappers. The lecturer believes in the terrorist’s cause but not in their methods. After debating with the terrorists for a while the lecturer begins to relax and joins the terrorists in wearing a mask. The police then raid the terrorist location and kill the lecturer, believing him to be a terrorist. The police then find the phone on the lecturer’s corpse, thus revealing his true identity.
We have decided not to conform to the stereotype of a middle eastern islamic terrorist as we believe this is too common, as well as the irish terrorist stereotype. Instead we are characterizing our terrorists as cyber-terrorists.
This page shows an overview on cyber terrorism.
This page shows the law concerning cyber terrorism.
This is a facebook page designed to generate support for Gary McKinnon
