Derren Brown

Recently, Derren Brown did an experiment over live television which was aimed to make anyone who watched it sit down and be unable to get up untill he did whatever he does to allow you to stand up again. Neither I, or anyone else I know who watched it were stuck to their seat. The reason I have mentioned this, is because I feel it ties in with my research project. Before Derren Brown played the clip, he was talking the viewer through the process and what to do. while he was doing this, a split second illustration of someone sat in the correct position flashed up on the screen. This has led me to believe that, the only reason people were stuck to their seat was because they allowed them selves to be, through the power of suggestion. I feel the trick didn't work on me, because despite being open to the idea of suggestion, I was always in denial about his ability to "glue me to my seat". For my research project, I would like to show how films/documentaries/adverts can influence different people through subliminal messages and the power of suggestion through editing.
I would love to be able to add some video clips to back me up in this post, but unfortunatly I can't access youtube or any video sites from this computer, so you'll have to just imagine for the moment.....