Friday, 18 March 2016

Conspiracy Theory edit

The conspiracy theory edit is our main assessment for post-production, the criteria for the assessment was as follows;

·         Create a 4-5 minute film.
·         Work in groups of 2 or individually
·         All images must be taken from archive footage found on the internet and stock footage.
·         The film must have an opinion. It must come from one side of the subject.
·         It must be considered to be a conspiracy theory.
·         You must choose a subject and create a narrative from the story.
·         You must convince the audience it is true.

The first thing I had to do was to look up all the different possible conspiracy theories there were. Some of the possibilities were enhances crop that drop IQ's, the government oppressing alternative energy for cars and secret messages in music that tell the public how to live their lives. After researching all of the options I choose the government oppressing alternative energy. Once I had decided this I went onto many different websites to find evidence to support my conspiracy


Some of the websites I used;

  • http://jimstonefreelance.com/slapintheface.html
  • http://oilinhaiti.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/haitian-natural-resources-oil-in-haiti.html
  • http://www.alternet.org/5-todays-wackiest-consumer-conspiracy-theories-debunked

I found that it was useful not only to find websites supporting my conspiracy, but also debunking it. This gave me and idea to expand and change my conspiracy into something else. I choose to have a conspiracy that the government and oil companies are working together. Once I had change to my new conspiracy I then had to find clips that I could use in my final edit. Here are just some of the clips I found;



After finding all these clips and more I started my rough edit in class. This mainly consisted of putting all the clips I found in no order and I quickly found I needed an editing style for the film. After researching how I could edit this assessment and finding suitable music I found a Charlie Chaplin speech from the great dictator with Hans Zimmer's Time from the movie Interception over the top and it was very moving and could fit well into my edit, especially what he was saying. 


Now that I had the speech and the music I decided to go for a motivational edit, showing the facts and then showing people trying to fight back as the music built up. Also the ending to the music had a sad fell so I thought I could show the effects of oil use to get the sympathy vote. After all this was decided my first edit in my opinion was good, I could see the project coming together. I shoed it to Andy and he helped me by giving feedback, which in summary was make it shorter and tidy up the cuts. 

My final edit is as follows; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDi_qluREXU

Overall I am very happy with the final project, especially with the knowledge that this is one of the very first edits I have ever done. I fell like to packing was good in the majority of the film and the music and speech added a lot to it. Some parts which I would change would be just passed half way through I feel it slows down, and possibly this part could have been taken out. However like I said overall I am happy with what I have created and I can't wait to do something like this again. 
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