VIS 174: 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!

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)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_894211&src_vid=adGVpCsf9N4&v=rVjcLL9WwU8&feature=iv

Kanye West Baphomet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccPm3CdP3Uo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L53gjP-TtGE&ob=av2e

Jay Z & Rihanna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVA-xTBeHyM (1:07)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEKWtgJQAU&feature=related (1:20) (:41 & 1:00butterfly)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1RChZk1EU (jesus) (2:09 & 3:48 ram)

rihanna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR34czeJlI8

prodigy “the life” look at end