The History of a Public Controversy

We have made some slight deviations with our public controversy project. Instead of focusing on the whole KONY 2012 campaign alone, we decided to focus on the more broad topic of child soldiers in Africa. We are still working out the kinks, but we decided that because we have such a powerful and serious topic, we want to bring in the audience and give them the opportunity to truly be a part of the project. For the first scene, we want to start off with the sound of fists pounding on the door and a statistic running across the screen about children soldiers. We then want to use pictures as a background to our narration of the history and background of child soldiers. During this part of the presentation, we will also be incorporating interviews that we will conduct with various students on campus to get their feedback on how well they are informed about child soldiers and the KONY 2012 will also be incorporated into the project, rather than being the sole focus of the project. Our main goals are to not only inform the public about child soldiers and the efforts that are going towards this cause to help alleviate the pain which it causes, but to truly move the audience.