You're right it doesn't work in with a single touch. It requires someone is susceptible to manipulation and it requires them to be conditioned beforehand. If you look at one of his theatre shows. Before he brings up a person onto the stage to be his main hypnotism subject, he does a experiment on the whole audience where by they do something with their body (hands stuck together, one arm up etc). Then only a select will continue to be stuck in this way, because they can be impressed upon and he will choose one of them to be his subject. If he chose one random audience member out of say 400, chances are he will fail.
As for the continuity differences. You do know the program was not cut and broadcast in real-time? Things happen in between cuts. Real things that aren't exciting. People sit, people stand, people drink, people eat, people do poos and wees.
I don't remember the dark scene very well but if there were shadows, they would have been cast via the infra-red lamp and given that they used the same camera for the normal lighting and IR light, then that suggests they used an active IR camera which then explains the lamp.
Cameras behind shelving units were behind 2-way mirrors/material. Technically, one-way but I prefer 2-way!
Steven didn't notice the cameras because guess what, they were hidden. They served their purpose. Being in TV production, you should know that you can do nearly anything except from sticking an EX3 up someone's backside before they notice cameras are following them.
As for the shots that are really close and detailed, I mentioned earlier that I believe those to be pickups with an actor in costume. They don't have Steven's face but they do for the actors (girl and paramedic), which leads me to believe they were pickups.
Audio would have been done with parabolic mics (the ones with dishes) and omnidirectional mics dotted around the location as well on the actors. I imagine they mixed in certain sound effects in like the helicopter and zombie moaning.
It's a conspiracy because the audience are led to believe that Steven is not an actor. When the car rolls off the cliff on Top Gear, the presenters don't say that it was totally unscripted. But sometimes unscripted interesting stuff does happen on Top Gear and the presenters actually say when it's unscripted.
As for the festival, they probably decided not to show it as it wasn't conducive with his proposed lifestyle (to be a sit-at-home slob) not to mention the logistical nightmare of coordinating surveillance at a music festival. As I mentioned earlier, people do things between shots takes. However, please expand that point as I don't understand the second half of the second sentence.
I don't really see an issue with him being on Casting Call Pro. There are probably members of this forum who have a profile and have done a little bit of work here and there. Unsurprisingly, I do find that many young extras are just people who don't know what to do with their lives, much like Steven.
This whole Casting Call Pro thing is yet more evidence for people's inability to think logically. No, not logically. Properly. Just think for a second. No, stop reading, just think...
... ok even after thinking you haven't realised so I'll have to spell it out. When you get someone (X) to pretend to be someone they are not (Y), with the intention to deceive a large number people, YOU TEND TO REMOVE TRACES OF X TO SUPPORT THE STORY OF Y. It's not even a secret trick of deception and misinformation. It's just what you do to not get caught.
You're right it's not odd when you've just got people keeping the script secret. But it is quite odd to have to tell your crew that he's an actor and tell your audience that he's not. Not to mention that so many people will know the secret, someone's going to give it up eventually.
Look, you simply cannot have a lead in a prime time terrestrial show, without Equity being involved in the contract consultation. It just doesn't happen. Being signed or not has nothing to do with it.
As for Channel 4 and the insurers, part of the point of Derren's work is that he knows what's going to happen before it does. That's how he can "read peoples minds". Because he tells them what to think. In terms of insurance, all you need is someone who is good at writing risk assessments, that's it. I would suggest that he was actually in more danger when he was in the family car than when he was on the show.
I don't think a photo with Steven and Adam Buxton is evidence of a conspiracy. Extras like taking photos with actors when they're on set. Perhaps Adam wasn't acting but was presenting and Steven went as an audience member.
I don't understand. You opened this paragraph by disagreeing with me and you closed it by agreeing with me.
The latter. It'd be easier to fool a carefully selected person who is suggestible than a group of people who Derren does not pick. Steven was not a random dude. How many times does it need to be said that Derren picked him because he knew was impressionable?
What?! The rogue traders in Rogue Traders are not actors therefore you can send them to any house and they won't know. What are you going on about?!
I've already explained a few pages back on how information has leaked through far far greater occasions in terms of scale, importance, professionalism and secrecy. Besides you seem undecided who on the crew knew or not regardless of the fact the whole cast and crew would've signed an agreement.
All the non-thinkers are going to go berserk at the next episode. As far as I know, he's going to convince people that they've taken a drug that eradicates fear. Get your Googles at the ready as it looks like we've got many more actors and conspirators to expose. I'd be very interested to hear your theories.
Oscar Zulu, out.
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