As part of our post production work we were asked to create a three minute film simultaneously explaining a conspiracy and persuading the audience that the conspiracy is true. This film had to be made up entirely of archive footage.
Our film described the conspiracy called 'Big Pharma'. This is the theory that pharmaceutical companies include a small amount of illness within their medications to make sure the customers continue having need to buy it.
The editing itself was a really fun process. I mainly enjoyed working with the sound on the film. It gave me a chance to play with levels and fades as all the sounds we used were from different sources and of different file types. This made it quite a good challenge.
However, we faced quite a few problems when it came to the general direction of the film. We managed to find quite a lot of the same type of footage but not an awful lot of variety. This resulted in a bit of a 'samey' film with a similar pace throughout.
The feedback from the film confirmed this. Another point that was made during feedback was that the use of text within the film was a bit extensive. What we should've done was find footage and audio clips that explained the theory for us instead of having to write it all out. It was slightly slide-showesque.
If we were to do this project again I think we'd choose a different topic. A topic with a wider variety of footage available. We'd also create a set plan of direction before we'd even start editing to make sure that all points are made without need to include any (or little) text.
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