(Newswire.net — January 23, 2015) — Like previous IS videos showing hostages in orange jumpsuits as they kneel in the waste Syrian desert, the two Japanese hostages video shows the same scene. Desert breeze moving their jumpsuits the same way and the black uniform of the terrorist standing between them.
Video production experts, however, claim that the scene was recorded somewhere indoors on a green screen and that the desert was inserted to look as if they filmed the hostages outdoors. If that is so, terrorists could hold hostages in hotel room in Manhattan, as far as we know.
Video editors and VFX artists noticed that there is no dust in the video. Normally, when a film crew shoot a scene in the sand dunes and a little wind is blowing, we should see the dust around them.
The latest video the IS Terrorists posted online shows Kenji Goto, a journalist, and Haruna Yukava who runs a security company, kneeling in the sand. Standing between them is a masked terrorist holding a knife. The horrifying scene drew all attention to the content of the video so no one doubted it was filmed somewhere in the Syrian Desert, until now.
The AP editorial director for Terrorism Research and Analysis, Veryan Khan, noticed that the light appears to come from two different sources, oppose to the bright sun. If the hostages were recorded outdoors in natural light, the shadows would be going all in one direction. Instead, they converge, Khan said.
The jumpsuits wobbling from a breeze is actually coming from a fan, Khan said. The same is with the sound, which leaks an open-air desert environment, which Khan believes was prerecorded in a studio then mastered digitally.
The video posted online, identified as being made by IS group’s al-Furqan media arm, and appears to be filmed in the same location as other videos, was actually done inside, experts say. It is believed that the footages were made in the area south of Raqqa in Norther.
Ben Venzike, CEO of the counter terrorism intelligence company InteliCenter, said we could only speculate on how and where the videos are made, AP reported.
“It makes for a really interesting story, but it does absolutely nothing to help the cause of stopping two people from being beheaded, and may actually harm it,” Venzike told AP.
US officials claim thousands of Islamic State militias have been killed in US led coalition air strikes.