21-02-2017, 09:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 21-02-2017, 10:28 PM by Lauren Johnson.)
The Department of Homeland Security and ICE released a promotional video on the subject of human trafficking some weeks ago, as part of its Blue Campaign. I've linked it below. A few people have re-uploaded it, hence the low view count for this clip.
The opening narration of the video says
"The signs are everywhere. Sometimes you just have to take a second look."
Check the partially obscured text on the wall to the right side of the girl's head in the first shot, and how the camera pans to reveal it. Notice the end of the second shot lingering just a extra few frames in the edit on the storefront as the man walks frame-left. And then notice the item the actor is carrying as he walks out of the store in the third shot, and turns to look back at the girl. The video is about human trafficking, not simple prostitution, and trafficking implies people out of view doing something nefarious. The third shot shows that the next storefront down is closed with a metal security door, and the street has no other people walking on it, with no other open doors. So the storefront that we see was apparently someone's idea of a plausible location for a young victim of human trafficking waiting for her client, and we're presumably meant to suspect that the people who put her there are in that store.
The Trump campaign released a promotional video for their social media initiatives a few months before the election, which featured a voter scrolling through Facebook posts. Reddit users gleefully pointed out a couple of carefully inserted images in the ad, including the notorious Pepe the frog meme (later name-checked by the Clinton campaign) at the top of the Facebook feed onscreen just before the posts were scrolled out of view. So the Trump team are not unfamiliar with using subliminal imagery in their commercials. For whatever purpose, I think that's been done again here.
The opening narration of the video says
"The signs are everywhere. Sometimes you just have to take a second look."
Check the partially obscured text on the wall to the right side of the girl's head in the first shot, and how the camera pans to reveal it. Notice the end of the second shot lingering just a extra few frames in the edit on the storefront as the man walks frame-left. And then notice the item the actor is carrying as he walks out of the store in the third shot, and turns to look back at the girl. The video is about human trafficking, not simple prostitution, and trafficking implies people out of view doing something nefarious. The third shot shows that the next storefront down is closed with a metal security door, and the street has no other people walking on it, with no other open doors. So the storefront that we see was apparently someone's idea of a plausible location for a young victim of human trafficking waiting for her client, and we're presumably meant to suspect that the people who put her there are in that store.
The Trump campaign released a promotional video for their social media initiatives a few months before the election, which featured a voter scrolling through Facebook posts. Reddit users gleefully pointed out a couple of carefully inserted images in the ad, including the notorious Pepe the frog meme (later name-checked by the Clinton campaign) at the top of the Facebook feed onscreen just before the posts were scrolled out of view. So the Trump team are not unfamiliar with using subliminal imagery in their commercials. For whatever purpose, I think that's been done again here.