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2015-02-22 Africa North

7-foot-tall ISIS headsmen suggest extensive video manipulation

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 So, they're as reliable as NBC News now.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-02-22 09:29|| 2015-02-22 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The probability that one would find 21 people over 7 feet tall is very, very, very close to zero.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-02-22 11:40|| 2015-02-22 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 So players on the Islamic basketball team are terrorists?

Posted by Skidmark 2015-02-22 14:17|| 2015-02-22 14:17|| Front Page Top

#4 "no harm, no foul" - rarely used in the ISIS Midnight Basketball League

Posted by Frank G 2015-02-22 14:30|| 2015-02-22 14:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Before getting to digital video manipulation or camera positioning, line up the hostage row from shortest in front to tallest in back. Pick out the tallest jihadis (they don't have to actually perform the execution a stunt double if you will) and line them up tallest in front to shortest in back. It creates a converging line which emphasizes any height differences.

I know a tall dude, nowhere near 7' though. If we dressed him smartly, and put me in something plain, and took our picture side x side in a background (or greenscreen) without any standard items of measurement (or faked size such as a 30" stick marked off like a yard stick) he would look like a giant.

How do you make Schwarzenegger tall? Cast him next to Divito.

Then camera angles can be utilized to further distort actual differences, like the leaning on Tower of Pisa poses, or holding the fish closer to the camera.

Then you can do digital stuff like stretch vertical by 5% and crop to create desired visual center of balance.

This is your paper, pencil, and eraser of video. There are other tricks, such as lighting or changing the scale of props (Tom Cruise in his apartment in War of the Worlds is a great example with him standing next to a miniturized refrigerator to make him look 6'+ tall). Even sound; IIRC the AT-ATs are only a couple feet tall, but the sound effect from, IIRC, a large metel press adds to them being ginormous machines.

Nobody is taller than your main characters, unless to emphasize their physical dominance - think Mel Gibson in Braveheart. The main characters here are the prisoners, not the faceless uniform one voice jihadis but the unhooded slaves to emphasize their distinct features.

The point of these videos, for us, is to spread terror and doubt (to them, it makes their jihad swell and attracts like minded recruits). The terror is obvious, to sit back and question how much of the video is genuine, no matter how clear the message is, is the doubt.

*I did't see the video, guess I knew how it ended. I could if somebody thinks there is a point to it, just seems like making fun of someone's shoes being untied as they are kicking me in the mouth.

**and piss on our administration for giving doubt-cover by condeming the Egyptian led counter-attack.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-02-22 15:14|| 2015-02-22 15:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe they could get jobs changing light bulbs.

Uh oh...

How many jihadis does it take to change a light bulb?

Shuttup! I Keel You!

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-02-22 15:26|| 2015-02-22 15:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Could also use them to trim tree limbs that are a hazard to power lines.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-02-22 18:23|| 2015-02-22 18:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Putting them on top of pickups at around 40-50 mph ought to trim the lower hanging branches.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-02-22 18:25|| 2015-02-22 18:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, imagine the jobs they could do!
They could feed giraffes by hand at the zoo.
They could pick all the dates,
If they just stand up straight,
It would be Harf's mouth dream come true!

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-02-22 18:29|| 2015-02-22 18:29|| Front Page Top

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