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!