Per popular request, we’ve put together a quick technical overview of some of the exciting technologies you may have seen in your neighborhood or on the news.

In the wake of the deceptive broadcast by the terrorists, we’ve been bombarded with requests about how the special effects were performed during the recent interruption of John’s hospital announcement.  You asked, and we’ve got the answers you wanted!

The Hoax

During the recent broadcast from the Los Angeles Medical Center, terrorists interfered with the broadcast temporarilly and broadcast fabricated images with the intent to confuse and misinform people about the peaceful mission of the Visitors.  As requested, we present this special on how these amateurish special effects were done.

We spoke with many leading makeup artists about the type of complex molds and latex skins that would be needed to create the image broadcast.  Surprisingly, we discovered that getting this effect was much easier then we had thought..

During a quick visit to a Visitor Approved library,  we found the following recipe for a cream which could create the unconvincing excerpt you may have seen on television:

Recipe for deception cream

• Vegetable shortening
• Green powdered food coloring
• Corn Syrup

The makeup person would mix the three together and heat briefly in their microwave oven to get it to properly congeal.  Then, they simply put it onto the face of their actor.  After it cooled and set properly, they took a simple latex skin flap they had cut out and placed it over the hardened cream.

During the broadcast, a scientist conspirator switched from the remote feed to the pre-taped hoax, momentarilly overwhelming the legitimate broadcast with the faked footage.

Millions of viewers around the nation saw it, and very few were fooled by the poor fx and makeup skills shown.

If any of your friends try to convince you of the validity of the footage, refer them to this article or report them to the nearest Friends of the Visitors neighborhood headquarters so that a squad of Public Relations experts can visit and show them some more information.

- John Boaker, staff researcher.

Special Effects or

Special Lies?

A whole industry based on
visual deception thrives
- By Dianne Lewis

Special Effects. We’ve all seen them, from the colorful laser blasts in Star Wars to the comical dancing soap bubbles in television commercials. But are these “optical illusions” truly the creative expression that their technology minded creators claim? Or are they the results of Scientist Propaganda working to infect our minds with fanciful ideas?

Dangerous Trends

The recent hoax at the Los Angeles Medical Center is another in a series of examples of Special effects (or “SFX”, as their creators like to call them) hurting our youth.

Tragedy Strikes

We reported last week about the tragic loss of life when youngster Johnny Wellington accidentally discharged a stolen Visitor peacekeeper into a crowd of friendly Visitor security personnel. Luckily, the security personnel were able to find shelter, but sadly the power unit of the stolen peacekeeper, tampered with by nefarious earth Scientists, malfunctioned and exploded, killing young Johnny instantly. Johnny’s parents are dealing with their grief with the help of Visitor counselors on-board the New York mothership, but too the time to give the following statement:

“We are immensely saddened by our sons death. Poor Johnny, he had such a bright future, but he was very impressionable. His favorite movies were space battle movies with characters that dueled with laser pistols all the time, and he was just too young to differentiate between reality and fantasy. We miss you Johnny!” Mr. Wellington affirmed his wife’s statement, adding “this could have happened with old-fashioned guns as well. I strongly urge everyone who owns a gun to dispose of it at a local Visitor community center so that this type of tragedy doesn’t occur again.”

From their mouths

We spoke with a few Special Effects creators to get their take on this volatile issue. Brian Grasser with OceanBottom Images, a leading SFX firm, defended his dubious hobby. (please note, some slight editing was done in the interest of time)

“Special effects(…)responsible for tragedies. People need to take responsibility for (….) allowing people to get hurt, no! We have strong safety (….) to take care of ourselves, but working with computers is otherwise (…) like playing with matches.”   Chilling words indeed.

Deception at Prime time

Others in the field have also admitted being tasked by terrorist organizations to insert anti-alien messages in their work. Subliminal messages urging distrust of rightful authority have been broadcast in many popular shows by these people, so be careful you don’t fall victim to their mind tricks.

It seems clear, in light of these recent discoveries, that the science-heavy production of these expensive visual deceptions are doing our nations youth harm.  Write your congressman and ask that they support a new bill which expands the existing Scientist Registration Initiative to include members of technologically advanced fields such as film-making.  The family you save may be your own.

- Dianne Lewis, investigative affairs liaison.