Hollywood Scripting

[barracuda]

All that bass-heavy black music soundtrack for the target-audience-of-color (Katrina crimes against blacks amplify concerns)
also evokes 'The Base' also known as 'al-Queda'.

Whoo-boy, that's a humdinger.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

I just don't have time to post the same thing repeatedly. being concise.

You missed the Mumia news cycle theme amplified by Katrina atrocities.
Marketing to people of color with add-on soundtracks.

Then - countering what 'al-Queda' really is, "The Base" of fighters used by CIA-MI6-ISI
exposed outloud in Parliament by former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.

Decoyed by CIA-NPR in their theme song bridge between stories since 9/11.
Put in CIA-Disney 'Little Mermaid" movie series recruiting females.

Put in pre-9/11 priming movies as both "base of a statue" focus and characters with the names of famous bass players, "Ray Brown" and "Mark[us] Miller." And many other examples.

HOW CAN SCREEN SCRIPTS EVOKE PSYOPS ASSOCIATIONS? Take it from the master, Milton Erickson-

Milton H. Erickson, Ernest L. Rossi, Sheila I. Rossi
‘Hypnotic Realities: The Induction of Hypnosos and Forms of Indirect Suggestion’
1976. Irvington Publishers, Inc. New York
From page 229 –
“Table 1
The Microdynamics of Trance Induction and Suggestion

1) Fixation of Attention
2) Depotentiating Conscious Sets
3) Unconscious Search
4) Unconscious Processes
5) Hypnotic Response

1. Fixation of Attention

1. Stories that motivate, interest, fascination, etc.
2. Standard eye fixation
3. Pantomime approaches
4. Imagination and visualization approaches
5. Hand levitation
6. Relaxation and all forms of inner sensory, perceptual or emotional experience, etc.





2. Depotentiating Conscious Sets

1. Shock, surprise, the unrealistic and unusual
2. Shifting frames of reference, displacing doubt, resistance, and failure
3. Distraction
4. Dissociation and disequilibrium
5. Cognitive overloading
6. Confusion, non sequiturs
7. Paradox
8. Binds and double binds
9. Conditioning via voice dynamics, etc.
10. Structured amnesia
11. Not doing, not knowing
12. Losing abilities, the negative, doubt, etc.

3. Unconscious Search

1. Allusions, puns, jokes
2. Metaphor, analogy, folk language
3. Implication
4. Implied directive
5. Ideomotor signaling
6. Words initiating exploratory sets
7. Questions and tasks requiring unconscious search
8. Pause with therapist attitude of expectancy
9. Open-ended suggestions
10. Covering of all possibilities of response
11. Compound statements
12. Intercontextual cues and suggestions, etc.

4. Unconscious Processes

1. Summation of:
a. Interspersed suggestions
b. Literal associations
c. Individual associations
d. Multiple meanings of words
2. Autonomous, sensory, and perceptual processes
3. Freudian primary processes
4. Personality mechanisms of defense
5. Ziegarnik Effect, etc.

5. Hypnotic Response

"New datum or behavioral response experienced as hypnotic or happening all by itself."

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

again concise. you spend the time if you're really interested. I already did and have other venues.

1) History of USG use of Hollywood - easy to find
2) History of CIA use of all media - easy to find if you look
3) Military doctrines of Psychological Operations in support of other doctrines - Stability Operations, Internal Defense, Counter-insurgency
4) Whistleblowers and Congressional hearings on CIA media - easy to find
5) Research on the strong effects of media -especially video - on kidz - easy to find
6) Comparing script release dates, keywords, themes, images with real world events on the ground and matching them to
military doctrines - HARD AND TIME CONSUMING.

But I did it. I can only encourage you to find out why the real people named Greg Rambo and Leonard V. McCoy got fictionalized.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

In the early-to-mid-70s when Congressional hearings were dumping CIA dirty laundry including their media control,
a CIA-Hollywood movie came out called
'Three Days of the Condor' about a good-guy CIA analyst who scrutinizes books for embedded intelligence...

http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/Three ... Condor.pdf

HQ, from Langley said there's nothing...from any other intelligence source
to support your theory.

"When comic book artist Wiley Wilkins is given the opportunity to act out the pages of his greatest cartoon creation, “Condorman,” he jumps at the chance! Will Condorman defeat the evil Krokov and win the heart of
the beautiful Natalia Rambova? Find out when Condorman swoops into theaters, Summer 1981."

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

National Propaganda Radio (domestic Voice of America) started a write-in contest where contestants had to
include a certain number of keywords/themes in their three minute fiction entries.

http://www.npr.org/series/105660765/thr ... te-fiction

This was a decoy of how psyops is actually constructed. As I've written and spoken many times.
These keyword/theme semantic-anchoring tent poles hold up the narrative circus that distracts the target audience from the tent poles in their foreground vision as they watch the somatic acrobatics.

Related to parafoveal priming and subliminal priming.

[peartreed]

Searcher08:

Thanks for the interesting detail on The Hobbit production problems and the impact of small and large adjustments such as technically changing film stock, speed or resolution.

I’ve worked with John Bartley (Director of Photography on The X-Files & others) and his lighting and cinematography style to help create “paranormal” atmosphere became legend. The “look” of the first five seasons shot in Vancouver changed when the production moved to L.A. and Bill Roe took over. The backdrop became drier, brighter and more in common with most other shows.

Chris Carter attributed much of his inspiration for The X-Files to earlier era t.v. like, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Night Gallery”, Kolchak: The Night Stalker”, “Tales from the Darkside”, The Avengers” and “Twin Peaks”.

Other writers and producers emulated techniques of, “All the President’s Men”’ Spielberg’s CE3 , “Three Days of the Condor”’, Flashomon”, The Thing”’ “JFK’ and “The Godfather” (series), “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Boys From Brazil” got nods too.

I even appeared on a television panel alongside “The Three Gunmen” star Tom Braidwood discussing his show and “The X-Files” (where he was also 1st A.D.) and how production was affected by government, policy, subsidy and infrastructure. In a wide-ranging discussion he acknowledged that dependency and support. (Tom was also with “21 Jump Street” which jump-started many of us in the biz.)

Most film production financially relies on government tax breaks, facility and utility use, rentals and, often, military equipment and personnel, so cooperation counts.

HMW: Note above reference to, "Three Days of the Condor" - and have at it!

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Ever explore the BIRKBECK World Association Norms? Ya see, "triggering of associations" is the gravity of psyops construction, not just some rare esoteric CIA mind control program for a few...no no no. Triggering associations is how mass culture works.

http://www.psypress.com/birkbeck-word-a ... 0863774041

Well, CIA-NPR doesn't want you to know that this is the sort of database used to construct psyops.
So they have the hostess of their 'Tech Nation' show, Moira Gunn....yes, Gunn.....do a 5 minute rap with greasy semantics with the
theme music behind her of - what else - Dave BRUBECK's 'Take Five' theme....

Oh, do please listen to NPR to hear real psyops professionals in action....very edumacational.

Birkbeck Word Association Norms

By Helen E. Moss, and Lianne J.E. Older.

This reference work contains free association norms for over 2000 words in the English language, collected from groups of 40-50 British English speakers between the ages of 17 and 45. These norms should be of use to researchers and students in many fields of psychology, especially the study of language and memory, where the degree of association between pairs of words is often an important experimental variable. The main part of the book contains an alphabetical list of all associative responses and their frequency for each of the 2464 stimulus words. In addition, there is an index of stimulus words organized according to semantic category to aid selection of experimental materials. Full methodological details of the collection and compilation of the data are also provided in the introduction.

[Nordic]

Nordic’s experience with the hierarchy of relative influence (outlined above) coincides with mine. This further demonstrates that film making is a perilous process with production dependent largely upon he opinions, perspectives, preferences and personalities of the main players involved. That’s also why professional quality and experience at all levels determine the successful outcome. And the performers are literally at the core of the character in the end result.

I think there is also an issue around the sheer unpredictability of film shooting (except to some extent of someone like Speilberg (whose creation process seems very synced with the best practice tech available and whose crews have often all worked with each other), the film making process is a great example of a dynamical social system, with the 'small changes can create big effects' principle is much in evidence. Sometimes 'magic' happens, but it is an event that doesn't seem to coincide with artistic vision, technical excellence, a happy crew.

Just as an aside, I was fascinated to read that Peter Jackson was having severe problems with The Hobbit from the technology point of view

http://guyism.com/entertainment/movies/the-hobbit-screening-preview.html

I couldn’t be at the special preview screening of The Hobbit at CinemaCon in Las Vegas because I had other things to do. Like get laid. Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-Earth has been a long time coming, but the movie is finally scheduled for release this year. Unfortunately, the ten minutes they showed over the weekend kind of freaked a lot of people out.

The Hobbit is shot with a new film process that is not only 3-D but also runs at 48 frames per second – twice the speed of normal film. In theory, this makes for even smoother, clearer and more engrossing action. In practice, though, it makes for something different.

Critics at the screening raved over the new technology when it came to the opening moments – the aerial shots over the lush forests of Middle-Earth were stunning. But the moment actors hit the screen, everything went downhill. Here are some typical reactions.

People on Twitter have asked if it has that soap opera look you get from badly calibrated TVs at Best Buy, and the answer is an emphatic YES.

- Devin Faraci, BadassDigest

It looks like live television or hi-def video. And it didn’t look particularly good.

- Jim Vejvoda, IGN

The list goes on, but unilaterally most people are not impressed by the new technology. This is going to come as a serious blow to filmmakers including James Cameron, who have been trumpeting 48 frames per second as the next big thing. Let’s face it, though: does it really matter how fast the movie’s going? The original Lord of the Rings movies looked just fine at 24fps. And in 2-D, to boot.

Edited to add:
I believe there was an episode of the X Files which was shot as an experiment using video (not sure if it was HD) instead of film. It totally destroyed every trace of the episode's atmosphere.
Be interested in any perspectives on this...

This is a huge thing going on right now, as cameras are all going digital, and they get radically different (bigger, better, faster) every couple of years, AND cinema chains are starting to make the change to digital projection. Then there's 3D thrown into the mix, IMAX, and don't forget the home stuff, there are 4K TV's about to come out ( ), there's already different flavors of HD, and these "smart" TV's which default to a setting which makes film look like nasty soap-opera video. It's just a crazy free-for-all right now, and nobody knows how it's all going to settle, or if it is at all.

"The Hobbit" fiasco was undoubtedly due to a great many filmmaker's having wanted for some time to up the frame rate to something like 60 fps, which is what Douglas Trumbull did when he came up with "Showscan", which was not only shot and projected in 60 fps but also shot on an extremely huge negative. Trumbull did a lot of tests beforehand and discovered that humans' eyes and brains tended to really like the 60 fps -- shot on the big neg (and film) -- and although I've never seen it myself, I've heard that it's breathtaking.

Having not seen "The Hobbit" sequence in question, I don't really know what to say about it, but apparently there's something about the 48 fps, and 3D, together, that is very unappealing to viewers. My guess is that the higher frame rate means a higher shutter speed per image, so that there is less motion blur. Which is sorta what people are used to with video cameras now, especially of the consumer and prosumer variety, where they can automatically adjust shutter speed per frame to an extremely fast level, so the motion blur often, in bright light especially, goes completely away.

Or, maybe the lighting was just really bad.

Sometimes Peter Jackson makes some really odd creative choices. Maybe this was one of them.

But yeah, all this stuff is a Very Big Deal right now, especially with cinematographers. There's also a lot of harumphing and general grumpiness over the advent of the DSLR popularity, the fact that images from DSLR's just don't hold up to the types of demands put upon them by post production, and that sort of thing. Rumors about DP's on huge mega movies using their iPhones to shoot certain sequences, or shots, don't help either.

[Stephen Morgan]

Yeah we're just saying that this fantasy black-ops hollywood nightmare that hmw has cooked up in his head is just a paranoid delusion. And for people who actually have real world experience in the biz things are completely different.

And no doubt if you were a politician you'd be saying there's no such thing as CIA sexual blackmail, and if you were a journalist you'd say stories get dropped because the editor thinks they don't have legs and not because of a word in his shell-like from the minister. And if you were a social worker you'd tell everyone how lovely your local foster homes are.

So, I might think Hugh's crazy, but he's put a hell of a lot of effort into studying psyops, so I'm going to think more of what he says than someone who hefts a camera all day then goes home patting himself on the back for noticing that everything around him is just as it appears. Or whatever it is you and ther head of MGM up there do for a living.

Of course there is corporate and fascist propagandist strains in hollywood, some of quite overt. "24" for instance, which its creator, Joel Surnow, basically admitted was propaganda, just as he proudly touted his friendship with Rish Limbaugh. Then there are the other recent examples such as that Katy Perry video and that movie "Acts of Valor".

And if you had been working on the Perry video, wouldn't you still be here telling us how it was just a patriotic producer or a uniform-loving fashion adviser?

And Surnow isn't covert, obviously. Covert influence is what we should be concerned with, not lone madmen.

Then there is the constant rewriting of history with shows like that excreable "the path to 9/11", produced by the clearly right wing and creepy Disney empire.

But hollywood is most certainly not a literal division of the cia, with spooks choosing charcter names based on obscure bit players in long-dead historical events, or choosing colors in movie posters based on the same. Movies are not constantly whipped in a matter of days as reactions to current events. Even when they do make a project based on big true eents it usually takes uears to get them completed.

Not if you know what's going to happen in advance. Those decisions are all made by people, who can take bribes from whoever they want. I suppose you don't think banking or music (think Laurel Canyon) are wings of the intelligence cabal, either.

[Nordic]

Those are some extremely lame straw-men like statements you're making.

Listen, one of the reasons I see through so much of the media manipulation is because I work in that field.

So, no, had I worked on the Katy Perry video I assure you I would have been completely disgusted by it. Just as a for instance.

How many times do I have to say that there is plenty of media, especially on TV rather than the movies (CNN for instance) which seems to be almost completely driven by the PTB's. I mean, people spend WAY more time in front of their TV's than they do in front of movie screens. If you want to get into people's heads, you do it there.

But the way Huge describes it? No. It's just fucking silly. And because he has actually studied a lot of this stuff it's ESPECIALLY annoying, and because he is tone-deaf to every post and every thread and every person on this board, he's just a bore and a boor and a guy, if he were at your dinner party, you would figure out a way to get rid of.

[Searcher08]

Johnny Was - an iconic Stiff Little Fingers anti Northern Ireland Violence song. (Based on/cover of another iconic anti violence song by some pothead...)

Woman hold her head and cry
Cause her son had been shot down in the street and died
From a stray bullet



(it takes 2 seconds to steal a riff, steal a riff...)


Seriously hugh every time you do this you destroy any cred you have. You're trying to fit the territory to the map ... without ever making allowances for inaccuracies in the map.

The title of the movie was from the SLF song and from the Bob Marley song


Johnny was a good man.
See sometimes, Hugh, a good man is in the wrong place and gets shot.
Ever had a cousin shot in front of his pregnant wife? Mistaken identity, they said.
It leaves an impression. And someone might want to make an intelligent film about whether people can change.

As regards the sound track, have you any idea how rare it is to have a soundtrack with black music? Maybe cos the film is set in Brixton, that might just be a normal thing to do?

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Spooks just made a big move to confuse the topic of psyops media, such as scripts, out in plain sight...

"Venezuela crossword Chavez assassination plot denied"
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=34686

[Stephen Morgan]

Those are some extremely lame straw-men like statements you're making.

Listen, one of the reasons I see through so much of the media manipulation is because I work in that field.

So, no, had I worked on the Katy Perry video I assure you I would have been completely disgusted by it. Just as a for instance.

But you wouldn't have known if it was a result of a militarised culture or the initiative of a covert operative of the intelligence services.

How many times do I have to say that there is plenty of media, especially on TV rather than the movies (CNN for instance) which seems to be almost completely driven by the PTB's. I mean, people spend WAY more time in front of their TV's than they do in front of movie screens. If you want to get into people's heads, you do it there.

But movies are big and special.

But the way Huge describes it? No. It's just fucking silly. And because he has actually studied a lot of this stuff it's ESPECIALLY annoying, and because he is tone-deaf to every post and every thread and every person on this board, he's just a bore and a boor and a guy, if he were at your dinner party, you would figure out a way to get rid of.

Still, his range of knowledge deserves consideration,while your experience of a lack of such covert action is largely meaningless.

[Nordic]

Still, his range of knowledge deserves consideration

No. It doesn't. Because he's barking mad.

[Elvis]

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This says it so well:

Where I depart from HMW is not in the recognition of the involvement of psyops and cointelpro conspiracies in media, but rather in the degree he has extrapolated his findings into the patently absurd extremes of total CIA control of all media and culture, and his particular fantasies formulating KWH associations more obscure than remote twin particle quantum behavior.

I’m also astounded that a self-declared anti-fascist would be such a rigid extremist in his convictions and by his rude, totalitarian tone of dismissing and denigrating the less informed. Other than that we probably have quite a bit in common.

Thank you, peartreed.

his range of knowledge deserves consideration

In my view, Hugh's interpretation and application of whatever factual knowledge he possesses is poisonous to any study or broader public awareness of psyops. He's putting feathers on a horse. It's truly unfortunate.