Technically this film should have been phrased differently as the case was proven to be a conspiracy, so it wasn't a theory any longer, but there are still debates on whether those exact words "let him have it" were actually used when he couldn't even write his own name and signed his signature with an X. The student attempted to make the piece revolve around this point but for the audience to understand the story the texture of the entire case had to be seen. Including whether he was guilty or not of murder.
- The pace of the film is slow paced, although this does fit the atmosphere of the piece it makes the film boring to watch from an audience's prospective.
- The use of very strong dark images supports the piece as it makes more of an emotional impact on the viewer and this is needed for the audience to feel a connection with Bentley and to support the conspiracy theory.
- The editor used red text to symbolise blood throughout the piece and this ties into the story of an autistic 19 year old boy who got hung for a crime he did not commit.
- The cut to Kenneth Clarke is quite sharp and it doesn't add much to the film, to enhance this film this would be a good thing to take out and replace with more footage focussed on Bentley's illness.
- In the middle section of the film where Bentley speaks his last words and the song "Hanging Tree" from the Hunger Games is playing the audio levels decrease heavily. If the editor was to do this again they should consider changing the levels to make a more balanced soundtrack to the video.
- Overall this video shows the story of Derek Bentley well and gives a good case on why the conspiracy is true but this film could do with a lot of tweaks within the edit, there are a couple of errors where the sound either cuts or fades to fast and the end or start of a line isn't clear to hear, this could lead to annoying the viewers as they didn't catch what had been said.
This edit was done in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
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