Post by Kenzie on Jan 17, 2014 17:38:30 GMT -5
Metric Academy of the Arts is a prestigious private academy that looks great on any resume. This academy is almost like an escalator school to a long-term career. Metric Academy trains its students in specific fields. The school itself is sponsored by benefactors and the employers of each of these groups, and so graduating well from Metric Academy practically guarantees employment in their specific field.
The fields offered by this academy include (but are not limited to, these are just some ideas):
1. Modeling
2. Dancing
3. Acting
4. Singing
5. Photography
6. Computer/Game design
7. Film making
8. Cooking
9. Writing
And many more. The school covers a wide variety of topics, but only students who particularly excel at any of these talents are given a letter to enroll in the school and improve their skills and make a career from any of these talents.
Students, upon enrolling, are placed into rather fancy houses with three other students (2 boys and 2 girls per house, unless a special request for a single-gender house is brought up with the dean) and have their own schedule to follow. The way the school functions is more like a college than a high school in arrangement of classes, since everyone takes gen. eds but their schedules also carry more individualized courses in which they study their specific fields. The students must pass at least 6 out of their 7 classes, if they fail 2 or more courses they will find themselves kicked out of the academy.
Our plot is primarily character driven and fueled by the relationships and interactions between characters and big group projects in which students wind up forced to work with people they normally wouldn’t work with, like the ‘baby project’ coming up which will land students in pairs of two (or, if the numbers are odd, three) and force them to raise the classic sack of flour baby.
Now be real, how fun does it sound to force your character to raise a sack of flour with a device that screams periodically in it and resist the temptation to bake it into cookies? Ridiculous, but fun.
Aside from the character driven-ness behind the plot, though, there is another darker plot that may be coming to the surface. Metric Academy is a school for extremely talented individuals who are clearly going places. As a result, there is some form of resentment from other groups outside of Metric…
No one knows who’s doing it, or why it’s happening, but slowly some students wind up going missing from Metric. The kidnappings haven’t started yet, but they will soon. No one knows how or why they go missing, and foul play in the staff of the academy may eventually be suspected due to how easily the students just start vanishing.
Of course we can’t do this plot without YOU! Like I said, this site is primarily character driven, so our characters will push this plot and hopefully it’ll be interesting to write!