THE WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM
Creating Your New Identity
WITNESS PROTECTION
is for people whose safety may be at risk because they helped the police or the courts. Witness protection is provided only for witnesses whose testimony is determined to be essential to the successful prosecution of a criminal case and in which the witness's life or the life of his family is at risk. The witness's testimony also must be considered credible and certain in coming, meaning that the witness isn't going to back out of giving that testimony in court. Protectees can be:
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Details of the program
Before entering the program, participants must be aware of the following guiding principles:
Focus on protectees
The program supports protectees by:
Before entering the program, participants must be aware of the following guiding principles:
- Participation is voluntary
- Participation is for life, if required (only limited financial support provided)
- Participation is not a reward for testimony
- Protectees' existing legal and financial obligations will remain
Focus on protectees
The program supports protectees by:
- Ensure safety and provides 24 hour protection while they are in high-threat areas
- Addressing their needs (counselling, addiction treatment, etc.)
- Helping them become self-sufficient (job, money, housing)
- Provide identity documents for witnesses and family members whose names are changed for security purposes
PROJECT OUTLINE
You are an important witness to a high profile criminal court case. Because of your testimony some bad people have been sent to prison for a long time. However to ensure you are safe from retribution you have been put into the Witness Protection Program. This means you will be assigned a new identity along with relocating you to a new location where you can blend in.
Create an identification for your new identity. The photograph will be of you, except not the "real" you.
The objective is to make it look authentic and show that the Photography and editing, Illustrator and Photoshop tools you've learned this quarter can be put to use.
SAVE YOUR FILE AS DL_yourname.pdf (FILE>SAVES AS - change format to PDF)
*we will not be making fake IDs to be used for the participation of illegal activities.
They won't pass for the real thing anyways, so it would be pretty dumb to try and use it.
Create an identification for your new identity. The photograph will be of you, except not the "real" you.
The objective is to make it look authentic and show that the Photography and editing, Illustrator and Photoshop tools you've learned this quarter can be put to use.
- "IDENTITY QUEST" (a literal identity quest): Fill out the character profile questionnaire (required for marks)
- "INSPIRATIONS": Search for a driver license examples on Google Images. Save them for reference.
- Make a list of things that are needed on the driver's license or identity card.
- Brainstorm the photo idea for your character (think of props, makeup, costumes)
- "CREATE" Using the photo-studio and lighting, take a ID photo of yourself to edit (Camera Raw) and use for the card
- Identity Card needs a design layout. Figure out where do all the elements and parts go?
- We will be creating these cards on ILLUSTRATOR. Canvas size should be 3.4 inches x 2.15 inches
- There should be some sort of security design device (watermark, official seal)
- Reminder to not use the DROP DOWN MENU in the SAVE window (Program will crash and you will lose everything)
- Remind to use FONT BOOK to search for your fonts, using the ILLUSTRATOR FONT MENU will cause program to crash as well.
SAVE YOUR FILE AS DL_yourname.pdf (FILE>SAVES AS - change format to PDF)
*we will not be making fake IDs to be used for the participation of illegal activities.
They won't pass for the real thing anyways, so it would be pretty dumb to try and use it.