UFOs will crash at three or four locations in the surrounding counties in the spring. And then in Pittsburgh at the Three Rivers Arts Festival in June and at the Science Center in July, where the show will eventually take place in early August. The final UFO crash will contain the plans we use to build the radio telescope system we’ll build at the Science Center to attempt our communication (our show).
The pitch:
We want you and your class to help by creating some short multimedia clips that’ll be used in this show and to help create hype and buzz leading up to the show – using using some of your creations as viral videos.
As the UFO crashes start happening, we want to post some of your multimedia clips on a couple of web sites we’ll manage that focus on this sudden increase in alien and UFO activity in our region. Eventually Squonk will come forward and take the lead to try and start a formal dialogue with these aliens.
Also these viral videos may wind up being discovered in the payload aboard one of the UFOs that crash – a message crafted to communicate with us earthlings. What do you think another creature might try and “say” to us? How would they “say” it?
So the clip you make could be a sighting of a UFO. It could be footage of an alien abduction. Or a sighting of an alien in and around Pittsburgh. Or footage from an abductee – some one who was able to shoot some video when they were abducted by aliens.
We are trying to perpetrate the myth that some of the great human accomplishments are a really the result of alien activity. Over the last 250 years here in Pittsburgh, aliens have played a big role in our history – they gave us the recipe for Heinz Ketchup or the plans for the Bessemer Furnace. They even personally delivered Tesla to Westinghouse to show us how to harness electricity.
Maybe the B-52 that went down in the Monongahela back in 1956 and was mysteriously never found was actually taken by aliens:
http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm364480.html
Maybe Joe Magarac was really an alien:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Magarac
Ultimately it should be SHORT – less than 30 sec… hopefully, less than 15 or 20 sec.
But it should be realistic and believable.
The catch:
Ultimately, we might not use your clip and we need you to help keep the secret. So please don’t post the clips to youtube or similar sites yourself. And please don’t talk about what we’re doing behind the scenes here.
Some examples to get you thinking:
Slick videos that take a lot of computer graphics skill:
http://www.aolvideoblog.com/2007/09/04/ufo-over-switzerland/
SciFi.com’s promo video:
http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/ufo?id=FtKuBKIaVvs
Pots and pans:
http://www.webtvhub.com/5-fake-ufo-sighting-clips-hilarious-and-crazy-fake-videos/
Old film footage:
The infamous Loch Ness monster photo:
How to make the footage look more convincing without a million dollar effects budget:
Old VHS cameras
Cell phone video
Shoot the computer screen
Infrared camera hacks
Webcams
Shooting Super-8 film
Or even creating super-8 film from video using an inkjet printer:
http://www.vimeo.com/109148
PXL-2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000#Simulating_the_PXL2000
http://www.indiespace.com/pxlthis/