Hello there,
WARNING--If you are in my group for the exquisite corpse project please do not read, I don't want to ruin the outcome of this project.
I have just started working on the exquisite corpse project and I can tell this is going to be a difficult one. I always used to play that game where you would draw the head and fold the paper over and the next person would draw the body and so on, so I was really excited to hear that our project was going to be based on that idea. With the subject strangeness being such a broad topic it was really hard to narrow down what I wanted to do. The ten second clip that a group member gave me was of a woman smiling in kind of a deranged way. This clip made me feel like she was the cause of some strangeness going on, so that is what I had to work with for my idea.
To start brainstorming I tried to think of somethings that happens normally and how it could be altered to be strange. One idea I had was that the woman from the last clip would take a picture of herself and put it on a 'Wanted: Missing Girl' sign and have her blatantly walk in front or near the sign and have no one notice that she was the one missing. I got really excited about this idea but because I didn't know the girl that my partner used for her clip, I needed to think of an idea that didn't actually have that girl in it. I brainstormed some more and came up with the idea of making nature have industrial-like sounds. I thought that would be a good way of taking something normal and making it strange. To transition from the girl to this nature-industry scene I will have the girls arm(this way I don't have to use the same person) put a plug into a tree. At that moment there is a zap of electricity from the plug to the tree. Once that happens I will have consecutive clips of nature making industrial like sounds. Not only will the nature be making these sounds but I also want to edit the clips to have effects on them to make them look less natural. I will try my best to make what looks and sounds natural and pure to look and sound industrial and synthesized.
To start out this process I started filming different things in nature, the bark of a tree, water rippling, some flowers, leafy plants. etc. Now I am in the process of uploading industrial sounds onto final cut and playing a matching game of images and sounds. I have done some slight editing and color alterations of the clips but I still have a lot to work on.
I will keep you guys posted on how I end up bringing everything together and I am still yet to receive my second ten second clip so I haven't started brainstorming on what I am going to do for that one yet either. Still have a lot to go but hopefully it will all come together.
Thanks for reading!
Gina Kirkish
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Blog #4: Remix Project
Hello friends,
So in my last blog I started talking about how I got started with the project but for this blog I am going to discuss the rest of my process.
I left off with Step #4 which was converting the youtube videos to final cut.
Step #5: Organize Video Clips
Since I was working with a lot of footage I decided I need to keep everything in an organized fashion. I made various bins that had different categories of footage. For example I had a bin labeled 'eye' in which I put all the footage of videos that had a clip of the all seeing eye and I also I had a bin also labeled 'baphomet' where I put clips that were related to the baphomet looking figure. I also had a bin labeled 'mind control' where I would put footage of robotic or absent looking pop stars. There were a few more bins but I wont explain them all.
Step #6: The Edit
Organizing the clips in bins made this whole process much easier. I started out by putting as many clips of the all seeing eye and the baphomet together because those were the most prominent symbols that I used. I didn't want my video to be only symbols but also show footage of pop stars that look like they've gone under mind control. To do this I did a little research of what exactly happens when a pop star goes under mind control. Vigilentcitizen.com does a good job of explaining this theory of this 'pop-star mind control'. They say,
"An outgrowth of that project is unofficially referred to as “Project Monarch”. It is a mind control technique which exposes the subject to a trauma so violent that his/her mind creates a dissociation. The victim’s brain becomes compartmentalized and a new personality, which is then molded and educated by the manipulators, emerges."
So, with that said I wanted to show trauma by using clips of pop stars under abuse and taking on a new personality. In many music videos that I've watched I've seen this alternate personality emerge. For example in one of Brittany Spears music videos that I used, she starts out in a white dress and gets wires connected to her and the white-dressed "innocent" Brittany then fights her alternate personality the black-leather "evil" Brittany. The innocent Brittany ends up loosing the fight and falls to the ground when the black-leather dressed Brittany takes over. This is just one example of this alternate personality of a pop star taking over.
So with that I wanted to make this video tell more of a story so I had a specific order for that,
1. First I started with an innocent girl and her teddy bear to show the young innocence as a child before the mind control takes over
2. Then I used a clip of Lady Gaga over a swirly background over-layed with occultist symbols to give it a trance like mind control feel
3. Then I used a lot of consecutive symbols of the all seeing eye to show how their mind control is now being projected onto us
4. Then for the middle of the story I used clips showing a pop stars going under trauma going into the alternate persona taking over and the innocent persona falling down
5. Then I showed consecutive clips of the baphomet symbol to remind people of this occultist symbolism
6. Towards the end I wanted to show clips of the new transformed persona. The evil persona that wants to control us
7. I ended it with Beyonce smashing the world into the background and going back to the swirly mind control background with occultist symbols over it, similar to the very beginning
8. The song ends and the video ends with a clip of Lady Gaga explicitly saying that she has gone under mind control so sum everything up
You can see that the order of everything was not random but had almost a story line to it. I also wanted to give the audience a feel like they were going under mind control as they were watching this video. By doing this I used a lot of short jumpy clips and would have random occultist symbols flash very quickly.
Step #7: Export to vimeo
I you want to learn more about this crazy conspiracy theory go to vigilantcitizen.com
Thank you and hope you enjoy watching my video!
So in my last blog I started talking about how I got started with the project but for this blog I am going to discuss the rest of my process.
I left off with Step #4 which was converting the youtube videos to final cut.
Step #5: Organize Video Clips
Since I was working with a lot of footage I decided I need to keep everything in an organized fashion. I made various bins that had different categories of footage. For example I had a bin labeled 'eye' in which I put all the footage of videos that had a clip of the all seeing eye and I also I had a bin also labeled 'baphomet' where I put clips that were related to the baphomet looking figure. I also had a bin labeled 'mind control' where I would put footage of robotic or absent looking pop stars. There were a few more bins but I wont explain them all.
Step #6: The Edit
Organizing the clips in bins made this whole process much easier. I started out by putting as many clips of the all seeing eye and the baphomet together because those were the most prominent symbols that I used. I didn't want my video to be only symbols but also show footage of pop stars that look like they've gone under mind control. To do this I did a little research of what exactly happens when a pop star goes under mind control. Vigilentcitizen.com does a good job of explaining this theory of this 'pop-star mind control'. They say,
"An outgrowth of that project is unofficially referred to as “Project Monarch”. It is a mind control technique which exposes the subject to a trauma so violent that his/her mind creates a dissociation. The victim’s brain becomes compartmentalized and a new personality, which is then molded and educated by the manipulators, emerges."
So, with that said I wanted to show trauma by using clips of pop stars under abuse and taking on a new personality. In many music videos that I've watched I've seen this alternate personality emerge. For example in one of Brittany Spears music videos that I used, she starts out in a white dress and gets wires connected to her and the white-dressed "innocent" Brittany then fights her alternate personality the black-leather "evil" Brittany. The innocent Brittany ends up loosing the fight and falls to the ground when the black-leather dressed Brittany takes over. This is just one example of this alternate personality of a pop star taking over.
So with that I wanted to make this video tell more of a story so I had a specific order for that,
1. First I started with an innocent girl and her teddy bear to show the young innocence as a child before the mind control takes over
2. Then I used a clip of Lady Gaga over a swirly background over-layed with occultist symbols to give it a trance like mind control feel
3. Then I used a lot of consecutive symbols of the all seeing eye to show how their mind control is now being projected onto us
4. Then for the middle of the story I used clips showing a pop stars going under trauma going into the alternate persona taking over and the innocent persona falling down
5. Then I showed consecutive clips of the baphomet symbol to remind people of this occultist symbolism
6. Towards the end I wanted to show clips of the new transformed persona. The evil persona that wants to control us
7. I ended it with Beyonce smashing the world into the background and going back to the swirly mind control background with occultist symbols over it, similar to the very beginning
8. The song ends and the video ends with a clip of Lady Gaga explicitly saying that she has gone under mind control so sum everything up
You can see that the order of everything was not random but had almost a story line to it. I also wanted to give the audience a feel like they were going under mind control as they were watching this video. By doing this I used a lot of short jumpy clips and would have random occultist symbols flash very quickly.
Step #7: Export to vimeo
I you want to learn more about this crazy conspiracy theory go to vigilantcitizen.com
Thank you and hope you enjoy watching my video!
Monday, October 17, 2011
Blog #3: Getting Started on the Project
Step 1: Brainstorming
So to start out my project I did a bit of brainstorming of really just writing out random ideas I had whenever they popped into my head. And I tend to not filter myself at all when doing this because you have to get through a lot of bad to come up with something good. So here are some things I wrote down...
happy disney song with evil things happening
one song or speech with many people saying it
love scene mashup
laughing after bad things happening
using clips from music videos with that comic that does parodies
use comedy act as audio and add video
disney to dub
nature planet earth to electronic
movies with soda ads or any obvious advertising
illuminati, lady gaga, mickey mouse symbols, ram symbols (ding ding ding! we have a winner!)
Step 2: Project Idea Expanded
Then I began writing out my idea in a way that I could present it to the class:
There are many theories out there that suggest that some major pop stars are under mind control and being controlled by the Illuminati. The Illuminati, if you don’t already know, is a conspiracy organization that is believed to control world affairs through the government or major corporations. We can see that there is some proof that pop stars today have been subject to mind control by the too huge amount of occultist symbols their music videos, in pictures or printed on their clothes.
I will focus on a few symbols in particular.
One of the symbols I will focus on which you might recognize from the dollar bill is called ‘the all seeing eye’.
The all seeing eye is probably the most well known occultist symbols, “The all seeing eye is the elite’s favorite symbol. It represents the eye of Lucifer, seeing all and usually atop a pyramid, the symbol for a top-down command and control system of compartmentalism” http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Illuminati/symbols_of_the_illuminati.htmAnother sadist, occultist symbol that I will show in my video is the symbol of the Baphomet. The Baphomet is a goat-headed figure with wings and I will use clips of famous pop videos that have this goat-like or winged image.
There are plenty more symbols involved with the Illuminati and some of these other symbols might appear in my video as well.
In order for me to show how prominent this symbol is today in pop culture I will remix clips with from famous artists such as Lady Gaga, Jay Z, Rhianna, Brittany spears and others. These symbols may seem subtle and unimportant when put briefly in a music video, however these symbols will become much more apparent when they are put next to each other in other music videos. Through out the video I will flash pictures of symbols in between clips and possibly even make it opaque and place it over a clip.
I will try to make the video itself have a kind of ‘mind control’ effect to it with the pacing and music. For the soundtrack I am planning on using the song ‘Take Over Control’ by afrojack, which when I was watching the music video had an all seeing eye symbol in the very beginning which I didn’t even plan!
One of the symbols I will focus on which you might recognize from the dollar bill is called ‘the all seeing eye’.
The all seeing eye is probably the most well known occultist symbols, “The all seeing eye is the elite’s favorite symbol. It represents the eye of Lucifer, seeing all and usually atop a pyramid, the symbol for a top-down command and control system of compartmentalism” http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Illuminati/symbols_of_the_illuminati.htmAnother sadist, occultist symbol that I will show in my video is the symbol of the Baphomet. The Baphomet is a goat-headed figure with wings and I will use clips of famous pop videos that have this goat-like or winged image.
There are plenty more symbols involved with the Illuminati and some of these other symbols might appear in my video as well.
In order for me to show how prominent this symbol is today in pop culture I will remix clips with from famous artists such as Lady Gaga, Jay Z, Rhianna, Brittany spears and others. These symbols may seem subtle and unimportant when put briefly in a music video, however these symbols will become much more apparent when they are put next to each other in other music videos. Through out the video I will flash pictures of symbols in between clips and possibly even make it opaque and place it over a clip.
I will try to make the video itself have a kind of ‘mind control’ effect to it with the pacing and music. For the soundtrack I am planning on using the song ‘Take Over Control’ by afrojack, which when I was watching the music video had an all seeing eye symbol in the very beginning which I didn’t even plan!
Step #3: Collect Clips from youtube
I went through lot and lots of youtube videos, and used vigilantcitizen.com to find even more videos. I would then copy and paste the link onto a word doc and put the time that the symbol appeared next to it.
take over control (first sec)
Kanye West Baphomet
Jay Z & Rihanna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1RChZk1EU (jesus) (2:09 & 3:48 ram)
rihanna
prodigy “the life” look at end
lady gaga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1FrqwZyKw&ob=av3e (begining) (33 ram) (1:22) (end)
Brittany spears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Edv8Onsrgg 1:44 (3 eyes)
jesse j
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMxX-QOV9tI (1:44 puppet) (1:50 eye)
LCD soundsystem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYCV2zybQoI (3:10) (3:14)
Christina agulera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIMoK1HiYuc (1:16 in chains) (1:50 eye)
black eyed peas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7HahVwYpwo&ob=av3e (3:43 triangle)
Step 4: Convert YouTube videos
I used keepvid.com to convert all the youtube videos and then imported them into final cut.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
VIS179:Blog 2
How I got started on my video log was I did a little research on contemporary art and found a few quotes that I liked...
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. (Donald Judd)
"We don't have a verb, 'to art,' but what are artists, dancers, poets doing? They're taking the ordinary and making it special. You create a bowl out of mud but you...make it special by engraving a pattern or figures on it. A poet takes ordinary words and makes them special. An artist places an activity or an artifact in a realm different from the everyday." (Author Ellen Dissanayake)
I wanted to use these quotes in my video log except I didn't end up having enough time because it already went a little past 2 minutes. I didn't realize how fast 2 minutes go when you are just talking straight to the camera!
Hope people enjoy my first(and possibly only) vlog!
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