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A Proposal and a Question
I didn't sleep last night... for some reason I kept playing 9/11 stuff over in my head again and again...
I'm taking this way too seriously...
I have a question...
Has anyone ever considered making our own video?
I don't mean a direct rebuttal to LC, I mean our own unique video documentary, in the same style as LC, In Plane Site, et al, but tracking actual events.
There are several reasons for this:
1) Visuals work better than text
2) We can get people to watch it and avoid pointless dialogue
and most important
3) Seems a lot of people don't accept the "official story" because it involves a lot of stuff they don't understand. They lack the skills to understand the specialist reports, and lack the time/patience/commitment to learn to understand them. As such they see much of the official story as "unexplained". Their own "common sense" fills in these blanks - this is the exact behaviour LC is taking advantage of.
I'm talking about a documentary that goes through step by step explaining what is happening, how, etc.
For example, if we take the WTC collapses...
We document at each step, using the same techniques as LC (video footage, websites, news articles, simple 2D/3D animations, Voice-Over) what happened. Example:
1) Plane crashes and related immediate events (severed supports, spread of fire, removal of fire-proofing...)
2) Various evidences of gradual failure and simple explanations/animations of what was causes them - floor trusses sagging, pulling in the building, etc
3) More imminent collapse info (such as report of floor collapses in South Tower via 911 calls)
4) Step-by-step progression of what a pancake collapse involves (explaining "squibs", the dust cloud, simple and effective comparisons "the collapse released as much energy as 10,000 bunker buster bombs" (or whatever...)
5) Demonstration of variations in estimated time of collapse
6) Demonstration of broad field of collapse damage on surrounding buildings
And so forth.
It's something I'd be really interested in being involved in, if such a project is viable. Certainly I personally have available to me the expertise and skills and personnel and equipment to assemble together such a project and mirror the stylistic features of info-tainment documentaries.
I can see a number of issues with such a proposal
1) The sheer scale of the project
2) Copyright issues (and I'm not 100% up to play on what they are in the USA in particular with respect to news footage, news websites, animation simulations of the attacks, official reports, etc)
3) Sourcing material - we would need huge volumes of visual material
4) Generating original material - basic animations etc
Lastly, for myself in particular, obviously I'm on the other side of the world and far removed from most of the source of such material as well as the actual sites of the events.
Anyway, I don't know if the subject has ever been raised, but thought it might be worth it - it also would reduce the image of us being simply against LC specifically (though this in itself is a worthy task!). Things like a viewer's guide/companion website with additional sources/links/etc would also provide the documentary with accountability and credibility that would set it aside from things like LC.
Incidentally, were the copyright thing considered the major hurdle in realising such a project, I would suggest that accquiring copyright on a strictly non-profit basis was at least considered for various sources.
I've had to get a lot of contracts signed for zero-budget film work like personal releases, location releases, property releases, copyright releases, music releases... sometimes the stuff you think will be easy turns out to be impossible, but in the same way a lot of stuff you initially write-off as impossible turns out to be very simple.
-Andrew
I didn't sleep last night... for some reason I kept playing 9/11 stuff over in my head again and again...
I'm taking this way too seriously...
I have a question...
Has anyone ever considered making our own video?
I don't mean a direct rebuttal to LC, I mean our own unique video documentary, in the same style as LC, In Plane Site, et al, but tracking actual events.
There are several reasons for this:
1) Visuals work better than text
2) We can get people to watch it and avoid pointless dialogue
and most important
3) Seems a lot of people don't accept the "official story" because it involves a lot of stuff they don't understand. They lack the skills to understand the specialist reports, and lack the time/patience/commitment to learn to understand them. As such they see much of the official story as "unexplained". Their own "common sense" fills in these blanks - this is the exact behaviour LC is taking advantage of.
I'm talking about a documentary that goes through step by step explaining what is happening, how, etc.
For example, if we take the WTC collapses...
We document at each step, using the same techniques as LC (video footage, websites, news articles, simple 2D/3D animations, Voice-Over) what happened. Example:
1) Plane crashes and related immediate events (severed supports, spread of fire, removal of fire-proofing...)
2) Various evidences of gradual failure and simple explanations/animations of what was causes them - floor trusses sagging, pulling in the building, etc
3) More imminent collapse info (such as report of floor collapses in South Tower via 911 calls)
4) Step-by-step progression of what a pancake collapse involves (explaining "squibs", the dust cloud, simple and effective comparisons "the collapse released as much energy as 10,000 bunker buster bombs" (or whatever...)
5) Demonstration of variations in estimated time of collapse
6) Demonstration of broad field of collapse damage on surrounding buildings
And so forth.
It's something I'd be really interested in being involved in, if such a project is viable. Certainly I personally have available to me the expertise and skills and personnel and equipment to assemble together such a project and mirror the stylistic features of info-tainment documentaries.
I can see a number of issues with such a proposal
1) The sheer scale of the project
2) Copyright issues (and I'm not 100% up to play on what they are in the USA in particular with respect to news footage, news websites, animation simulations of the attacks, official reports, etc)
3) Sourcing material - we would need huge volumes of visual material
4) Generating original material - basic animations etc
Lastly, for myself in particular, obviously I'm on the other side of the world and far removed from most of the source of such material as well as the actual sites of the events.
Anyway, I don't know if the subject has ever been raised, but thought it might be worth it - it also would reduce the image of us being simply against LC specifically (though this in itself is a worthy task!). Things like a viewer's guide/companion website with additional sources/links/etc would also provide the documentary with accountability and credibility that would set it aside from things like LC.
Incidentally, were the copyright thing considered the major hurdle in realising such a project, I would suggest that accquiring copyright on a strictly non-profit basis was at least considered for various sources.
I've had to get a lot of contracts signed for zero-budget film work like personal releases, location releases, property releases, copyright releases, music releases... sometimes the stuff you think will be easy turns out to be impossible, but in the same way a lot of stuff you initially write-off as impossible turns out to be very simple.
-Andrew
