Alien Invasion or Illegal Immigrants? by Brenda Smith

Details

Location

Rathmullan

Year

2024

Date

Length

02min 41sec

Audio

sound

Format

Digital

black and white

Source

Brenda Smith

Courtesy

Brenda Smith, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Rathmullan Film Festival, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

Brenda Smith

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

Alien Invasion or Illegal Immigrants? is Brenda Smith's entry into the What's the Story? short film competition at the 2024 Rathmullan Film Festival.

Smith reflects on the motivation behind her short film:  

"Telling a bizarre story, highlighting both the ridiculous and dangerous aspects of ‘fake news’, in an understated way, how history can be rewritten in propaganda form to sway/manipulate opinion.

The archive material was relevant to recent important historical events in Ireland - content broadly varied so enabling many options for interpretation,creativity and development. I considered three options. My final choice was influenced by tech problems due to power cuts but fitted my intention to focus on the concept of fake news. 

I drafted a short story using a comedic clip, interspliced with clips edited from two different pieces of military archive footage, to strengthen the story- explained in a self recorded, overlaid misleading commentary- designed to imitate a TV news report. I used Video Pad software as a beginner."

Credits

Film by Brenda Smith

Filmmaking course provided by Póca Productions in conjunction with Rathmullan Film Festival and Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive

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