Production notes: pan camera across a classroom. There’s one circular seminar table, and about 15 college students sitting around it with one professor. The professor should be male, Caucasian, in his 50s, and look likeable but with the potential to be intimidating. The students should be a mix — half male and half female, all look alternative or trendy with the capacity to judge heavily. Students should be 20-23 years old, except one 18 year old girl.
Students are engaged in a heated discussion, it looks very intellectual. Students not talking are actively taking notes, the professor is nodding along. Hear a phone loudly vibrate, and shift camera to focus on the phone’s owner — female, petite, obviously the youngest of the group — who suddenly looks ashamed and unsure of her self. She reaches into her pocket and switches off the phone and resumes note taking hurriedly. Zoom the camera out slowly to show the rest of the class, who are still in discussion and don’t seem to particularly care about the girl or her phone. It becomes obvious she is reacting to the Panoptican — she is self-regulating in response to an expected, inspecting gaze from the rest of her class and professor.
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