TREATMENT ASSIGNMENT
I supported the editing of two publications dealing with the Roswell Incident (a reported alien landing in Roswell, New Mexico) while serving in the Air Force. I consider both documents historical in nature due to the tremendous research and presentation of analytical, objective fact in explaining circumstances construed as an alien landing. Proponents of the alien theory have produced multiple documentaries attacking the study—a documentary supporting the study is appropriate but not within the tasking the Air Force received on the subject—and there was no money provided for it.
My first step is to take a step back and decide what I am trying to present. I have decided that the most convincing road is not to attack the alien explanation and countering the pro-alien spin on each fact but to present the established facts in a way that presents the facts. I would do this in three ways: add motion where possible, take some license and add color enhancement technology and make minimal use of sound (music).
After reviewing the two publications and looking at two of the subsequent alien documentaries the first ingredient missing, and what I would emphasize, is motion. Although a considerable amount of video exists, most pro alien documentaries emphasize still photos of actual crash sites and grotesque physiological incidents and reserve motion for the “after the fact of the alien” is established. A documentary named, “Alien Autopsy” televised several years ago displayed an entire autopsy in motion but made the leap that the figure on the table was in fact an alien. Inserting the actual clippings of the investigators handling the aluminum foil (supposedly the space ship) and showing the close up of its texture (and including the audio discussion) would provide a first person view not provided by still pictures. Additionally, the medical interview with the pilot who suffered the physiological incident (resulting in his head expanding on an order of three) speaking with a southern drawl and smoking a cigarette would provide better evidence that this individual was more human than alien.
The second emphasis, and potentially license, is to use color enhancement technology on the black and white video. Black and white stills, and videos to an extent, provide a morbid, almost surreal image. Most pro-alien documentaries will use this format, I contend, because it advances the surreal nature of aliens. I would use the color enhancement technology to breathe life into my argument—even a colored grotesque figure talking to a doctor in a southern drawl is a powerful image to counter the alien theory.
Finally, I would reduce the use of sound (i.e. music background) to the absolute minimum. In the vein of presenting the facts I contend a colored video clip with the sound of the wrinkling of the foil, the scratchy sound (circa 1947) of the pilot talking to the doctor, the crunching of the ground as soldiers search the desert for a crashed alien spacecraft would support my objective. I would also constantly review my objective of presenting the facts in the most objective manner throughout the course of developing the video to ensure I stayed the course.
