My idea was the biblical rapture but for people who don't believe in god.
I decided to make a terrorist-esque video message but from the antichrist, who had risen up out of Angela Merkel. I did a german accent but in the video the audio's distorted so it sounds more devil like. I also wanted to have a couple horror movie bits, to expunge the idea that this was an evil video message, so I reused my Justin Beiber mask and Madeline McCann mask doing some weird things.
For the words I was going to say in the video I took ideas from this Paradise Lost quote:
"2:880-884
With impetuous recoil and jarring sound
Th’ infernal doors, and on their hinges grate
Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook
Of Erebus. She opened, but to shut
Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood"
and combined it with some ghost buster inspired stuff (from when they're fighting on top of the building at the end of the first one against Zool), and then I added the german accent to get:
"Ze Great Tribulation iz upon you!
For I am ze Anti-Christ, Und I am rizin!
Zer shall be harsh tunder, Und ze ground shall shake
Fire vill vrain upon you, as plague Und vor vrack ze peoplez!
Hear ze trumpet cry, to ziz cocophony I, ze vurld chancellor, shall lead you!
Ze Infernal doors are open, Und ze Beast valks among you!"
I tried to get as many Ws in as possible and swapped commas for ands so I could pronounce things that sounded out the german accent more.
I made the Angela Merkel mask, adding horns in Illustrator, then printing it out, sticking it to cereal box cardboard and punching some holes in either side, each one gets a pipe cleaner through it and then you tie them up at the back of your head. You can also see the Maddie mask that features in the video (this mask was made for last Halloween, I felt like it pushed the boundarys of halloween masks, as did a few other people, one polish woman attacked me and several people shouted at me, I had to take it off at the request of someone I was walking with who was fearing for his life).
I made the flame background out of 3 sheets of A3 paper, stuck landscape to landscape to landscape with thick black tape so they were in a loop. Then I drew out the shape of fire and painted it with acrylic paint, the advantage of using the black tape was that I didn't have to paint half of each join. I put bottles at either end then, whilst I sat with my head in front of it, my house mate Jack (who also plays Justin Beiber) pulled at it so that it moved round. After messing with the video on the computer this made it look like Angela Merkel was moving about in front of a flaming background.
Here's the video:
After that I put together the booklet, I found out what the actual effects of the rapture according to the book of revelations from the bible.
-water turns bitter
-large increase in the number of snakes
-plagues and a general increase in illnesses
-endless thunderstorms
-raining fire
-locusts formed into charioteers
-demons marauding around (including the four horsemen of the apocalypse)
and then learnt what the practical solutions to these problems were.
Here's the 8 pages of the booklet:
The criticism I received was about the quality of paper it was printed on, and it wasn't double sided. If it was double sided I'd have to rearrange half the pages so I had the text on the left and the picture on the right. Also it was said that the Impact font and Garamond didn't go well together. But I wanted a shouty font for the titles and a more refined font to describe what to do in each situation. Surviving through the rapture is a very survival of the fittest time, and I tried to get across this idea through humour that the chance of survival was minimal. The last point against was that on the hunting snakes page the text comes to close to the bottom of the page.
I showed it to my friend Rosie the next day in illustration and her first thought was that it was a real publication from the uni until I said that I'd made it, which was pretty cool. I think that if I had got it printed double sided and on a better quality paper it would look really authentic.
I've reworked the booklet now so that the pages in it are double sided, it looks more professional as a result, as well as shortening the text in the Snake page so that it doesn't run so close to the edge of the page.
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