Assignment 2- Seconds to Eternity

ULTIMATUM

by Ryan Sng

https://sngwk94.wixsite.com/ultimatum

Starting this project I faced many difficulties on creating an interesting story that had to take place in a fragment of time. Being used to creating narratives that involved time it was very new for me think of 15 images that would interconnect and form a story.

In my opinion an interesting story would consist of a protagonist, a goal and a conflict. Every interesting story contains conflict, to show all these elements in a single moment in time was what phased me.

However, after multiple ideas I decided to settle on a basic storyline and focus on how the story is told.

My story revolves around around a retrenched man in his late 40s that is facing financial issues at home. His wife is critically ill and her hospital bills are a huge burden to Dylan, the protagonist. Dylan is a well educated and respected engineer in SMRT, however due to the economic downturn and recent SMRT setbacks, the company had to let Dylan go.

Losing his only source of income Dylan is forced to sell everything in his home to help pay for his wife’s hospital bills. He now lives in a small HDB apartment and sleeps on a mattress.

With the economic downturn, terrorist groups are taking advantage of this crisis to spread radicalisation and attack countries when they are weak. ISIS is one such group that has offered to help Dylan’s financial issues with his wife if they agree to cooperate with him.

ISIS wants Dylan to sabotage SMRT’s operations and spread terror in Singapore while the city is facing one of its worst downturns.

Presented with an ultimatum, Dylan decides to bomb one of the MRT stations in order to save his wife.

 

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