Producers'+Note

Our main goal of our PSA was to point out and show how [|Presidents], Politicians and other influential figures of the past have manipulated and changed our language, therefore changing how and what we think and believe. We each thought of a few well known leaders that have manipulated, for the better or for the worse. The beliefs and ideas of the people have been changed by influential figures or the media through a use of [|"doublethink"] and [|"doublespeak"]. Changing the previous thought of the people has been used to gain support, credit, trust, and power, or to do just the opposite. Throughout the ages we have noticed that many leaders or powerful figures have used a similar system of manipulation to build power and or status. In Ancient Rome after the [|murder] of [|Caesar][|, Marc Antony] simultaneously honored [|Caesar] and his murderer, [|Brutus], at [|Caesar's] funeral. This is an example of how an influential figure can utilize two contradictory things to appeal to different sides of an arguement. Many years later [|Adolf Hitler] gained the support of his nation through a revolutionary speaking style which directly addressed specific audiences. The way in which Hitler was able to win over his audiences enabled him to gain the support and love of his people because they truly believed what he said was right.

In our PSA we utilized the dramatic music of [|Carl Orf's O Fortuna] to emphasize the great authority and power held by the cantidates portrayed in the PSA. We opened with [|Julius Caesar], followed by Alexander the Great without adding any effects to the images present, because we felt that these politicians had already become powerful images in history. Upon the entrance of Hitler's speech at [|Munich, September 16th], we altered the image of a [|famous Hitler pose], to appear the way it might have appeared on German projector screen at the time to allow our audience to better experience the true power of Hitler's public speaking. After Hitler, words utilized by the aforementioned speakers flashed across the screen to have a subliminal effect on our viewers. We then introduced two modern public speakers who also made ample use of the Orwellian tactics of "doublethink" and "doublespeak"; [|George W. Bush] and [|Bill Clinton]. We utilized for Clinton, his testimony of not having had an inappropriate relation with Monica [|Lewinsky.] For President Bush, we utilized his speech addressing the [|situation in Iraq]. After both of these clips, we had Micheal voice over an essential tenure of our thesis, the belief that the uses of Orwellian strategy can influence the masses more effective than speech alone.

When we were researching our topic we came across many websites that were helpful and some that were not. Some of the websites that we found our pictures on were completely irrelevant and had no other useful information that we could use. To find the core, body information that we used to talk about the uses of word manipulation over the years we had to read alot of speeches. When reading through all of the speeches that we found occasionally we found perfect examples of what we are trying to prove. These excerpts of the speeches were our main sources of information that we were able to use. We also utulized extensive information that we already knew as a group about the time periods that we were talking about. The amount of knowledge that we already had added with what we were able to find on the internet were what helped us the most in forming of this project.

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