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Thanks for the honest feedback Peter.
As you say this was a very difficult story to tell in pictures, and required a huge amount of technical legal information to be shoved into 5 minutes.
I personally was quite proud of the first couple of minutes, but it's easy to spot I ran out of images shortly after that.
Thanks again!
Video is a medium better suited to "showing" rather than "telling," but this piece told much more than it showed. This is the kind of story that I try to avoid, since there really isn't much to see, other than what your subjects look like.
Given what you had to work with, I think you did a fine job. The pacing of the editing and narration is good, but if I was an average viewer, I think I would have quickly lost interest and navigated away. I kept asking myself "why am I watching this?" Not because it was poorly done, but because there wasn't much to see.
This is a story about legal process, and required an awful lot of explanation. John Hirst seemed like a character I should be interested in, but in the end I wasn't. Maybe you could have refocused the story on him, and why this is such an important issue to him.