by: Phillip Bothun
Radioactive is a music video of Imagine Dragon's song Radioactive. The film has two separate timelines: one follows two modern day scientists' race to save the world from an impending disaster, while the other, an extrapolated future, shows how the life-saving technology of the modern day has been perverted to cause endless conflict. Ultimately, Radioactive depicts the cyclical nature of human invention: healing, then death, which mirrors the Curie's discovery of radium and radioactivity.
Disclaimer: Cited within, this is a mash-up of Imagine Dragon's "Radioactive" and music videos from Coheed and Cambria's "Here We Are Juggernaut" and "The Broken". The compilation and editing of the footage, along with the titles are my own work. The footage and sound are copyrighted by their respective owners. Other sources include a public domain radio broadcast by President Truman, and declassified footage of an atomic bomb explosion.
This video is posted as a work submitted for scholastic credit, not monetary gain or to remove market share from the Copyright Holders and thus falls under Fair Use.