I do have a little bit of sympathy for the filmmakers. Thay had a huge amount of information and needed to compress it into the length of the film. That always looks easier after you have done it than it does when you are doing it!
Also, you tend to make assumptions because you know stuff and sometimes your presentation does not present that clearly enough. Maybe if they had made the film and then stood back and looked at the whole thing they might have spotted some issues.
Having said that, I am with you. It would have been nice to see one person visiting more than one dropbox or even the same dropbox more than once. They made the point about missing cameras. I think that could have been expanded upon to show the scale of the failures.
There was so much more they could have included. We could have been told what the phone positioning data looked like, for instance, or how many ways there are of getting position data e.g. triangulation, apps, GPS etc, or the locations of the non-profits. There are lots of things they could have said so editing had to occur. It is just sad that they missed something that many users seem to have picked up on. "Seeing is believing" as they say.
"That always looks easier" - Phillips said tons ended up cut.
Part of the issue is LOTS of the doc is laying things out from nothing for people who have no knowlege of any of this, as they have to (because plenty of people - the intended audience really)(well other than the mules, ha) have no idea or don't believe it or whatever.
If it had been made for us it could have been 3 hours long even with skipping all the setup and explanations etc.
I do have a little bit of sympathy for the filmmakers. Thay had a huge amount of information and needed to compress it into the length of the film. That always looks easier after you have done it than it does when you are doing it!
Also, you tend to make assumptions because you know stuff and sometimes your presentation does not present that clearly enough. Maybe if they had made the film and then stood back and looked at the whole thing they might have spotted some issues.
Having said that, I am with you. It would have been nice to see one person visiting more than one dropbox or even the same dropbox more than once. They made the point about missing cameras. I think that could have been expanded upon to show the scale of the failures.
There was so much more they could have included. We could have been told what the phone positioning data looked like, for instance, or how many ways there are of getting position data e.g. triangulation, apps, GPS etc, or the locations of the non-profits. There are lots of things they could have said so editing had to occur. It is just sad that they missed something that many users seem to have picked up on. "Seeing is believing" as they say.
"That always looks easier" - Phillips said tons ended up cut.
Part of the issue is LOTS of the doc is laying things out from nothing for people who have no knowlege of any of this, as they have to (because plenty of people - the intended audience really)(well other than the mules, ha) have no idea or don't believe it or whatever.
If it had been made for us it could have been 3 hours long even with skipping all the setup and explanations etc.