Chris Chan Documentary.

[spylobster]

I look forward to seeing what he will say, I am also curious what the Special Ed teacher thought of the film as well.

I don't know if he will do a video response but I will release some of the footage from the interview that didn't make it into the movie.

 

[nad7155]

Nothing new to add except to say it was a lot better than I thought it would be.

I enjoyed it overall.

But, I am not a "television professional".

 

[spylobster]

Also, I showed some friends the movie and they went home and watched it. One said it was really sad, the other is now like a christorian overnight and he was able to remember all the sagas, having no knowledge of Chris a few days ago. I had no clue what non Chan fans would think about it so this is good news.

 

[Reldnahcnotsewnaitsirhc]

My wife and I watched it last night. Was pleasantly surprised by the quality, nice job.

 

[spylobster]

My wife and I watched it last night. Was pleasantly surprised by the quality, nice job.

Hope you didn't forget the kids. Thank you.

 

[Centipede]

Switched this on for a laugh and ended up watching it all the way through. I didn't discover Chris until 2010-ish, so all the early trolling sagas were a bit of a mystery to me until I watched the documentary.

Considering you're a high schooler who made this largely on your own, you did a much better job than I was expected. Yes, you probably shouldn't mention to a girl in a bar that you spent three hundred hours making a seventy minute video about an autistic manchild, but you made a genuinely watchable and engaging documentary. Great job!

 

[Kosher Dill]

I watched it last night, and overall it was pretty well done. I think you need to work on a more consistent literary voice for your narration and captions though. Like, is it a first-person opinion piece, or a third-person narration? Are you trying to be formal or casual? Serious or silly? It seems to bounce back and forth at various points; I think the whole script would benefit from one more round of editing to pick one voice and use it all the way through.

Also, I personally don't like the "internet meme" font on the captions, but that's purely a matter of taste.

 

[deeman]

Also, I personally don't like the "internet meme" font on the captions, but that's purely a matter of taste.

In true CWC fasion, it should be Comic Sans!

 

[spylobster]

I watched it last night, and overall it was pretty well done. I think you need to work on a more consistent literary voice for your narration and captions though. Like, is it a first-person opinion piece, or a third-person narration? Are you trying to be formal or casual? Serious or silly? It seems to bounce back and forth at various points; I think the whole script would benefit from one more round of editing to pick one voice and use it all the way through.

Also, I personally don't like the "internet meme" font on the captions, but that's purely a matter of taste.

In true CWC fasion, it should be Comic Sans!

I didn't even know it was meme fonts or whatever you mean. When I made the tittles they were all default. And I decided on a font that I really liked and "impact" was chosen because it stood out a lot.

 

[spylobster]

I am home sick, probably going to get the reaction tomorrow. I don't know if he will be busy or not. Lets just hope he isn't. If he is it will probably have to be Monday or so.

 

[spylobster]

Someone sent me this,

http://connecticut.webschoolpro.com/weston-high-school_CT00115761/news.html

scroll to the bottom. Seriously what the fuck.

Buckle up kids.

 

[Male Idiot]

You did a very nice work! I liked how you remained neutral and did not try to blast any sides in it.

Your teachers are pretty nice guys to let you do a video about stuff like Chris and even star in it!

 

[SnergenFlergen]

Overall I was impressed with this, given the limitations you pulled off something professional and informative. If I may be allowed to nitpick though...

• There was a lot of slow scrolling over static images with narration. This can be effective in small quantities but I feel it was slightly abused here. There are hundreds upon hundreds of relevant CWC videos which could have been used instead of static images.
• I appreciate that there were time constraints, but each saga was glossed over. Obviously to talk about every saga in any sort of detail would increase the running time by several hours, but it did at times feel slightly phoned in. Each saga didn't really flow into the next and it almost felt like you were bullet-pointing, with very few of them leaving a lasting impression. Many key players were barely mentioned or not mentioned at all, not always showing the whole picture.
• This has been mentioned before and you have explained why this was so, but you abstain from divulging a lot of details about Chris's personality in an effort to portray him as a more neutral character. Again I understand that you didn't want the video to be flagged as bullying, but Chris's personality is more-or-less the whole reason behind his continuing e-infamy and something that should be addressed.
• A very minor nitpick but the sound mixing could have been better. On some occasions it was too quiet, only for the next scene to have deafening music. Very easy fix though.
• Another minor nitpick, but the changes in aspect ratio of images on the screen were slightly jarring at times and sometimes made the presentation somewhat shoddy. We'd go from looking at a full widescreen image to a tiny Chris video, leaving a lot of empty, black space around the screen (As seen in this transition).
  Spoiler

  

  

  
  Also occasionally you'd layer images on top of each other, making the screen cluttered and giving me SENSORY OVERLOAD (As seen in this screencap).
  Spoiler

  

But overall I'm glad I watched this and I think the effort you put in paid off. If I was to grade this I'd definitely give it six Sonichu Balls out of seven and put you at 8/10 on my scale of respect.

 

[timtommy]

I liked it. I won't go into a list of compliments, but I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome. Here is my constructive criticism.

I thought you maintained neutrality very nicely through most of it. When you did your closing narration, I guess you wanted some sort of "on the one hand, the trolls are bad, on the other Chris is" type flow to it. Which makes sense. But I thought the "Chris is bad because he fought back against the trolls" wasn't the best argument. Particularly since Chris never really caused any of the people who trolled him any harm in his "revenge" attempts.

If you are doing substantial re-editing I would consider re-thinking that argument. I am necessarily suggesting you adopt a more pro-Chris standpoint, just change tack a little bit. Maybe Chris is silly or gullible as opposed to Chris is bad? Maybe Chris is bad for being homophobic or racist? Maybe Chris should have done more with his life? Those are all themes you explore pretty effectively in the meat of the documentary, so you could easily return to them in your closing monologue.

 

[Phil Collins]

This documentary was amazing, and I do plan on watching it again. A few things I nitpicked were that you left out a LOT of details about Chris' involvement in these situations, where a lot of times he was the instigator of his own downfall. You also could have thrown in more details about the individual sagas themselves, but that would jack up the runtime to a Peter Jackson LotR movie. Maybe in a future project?

All in all, this was enjoyable and made me tear up a bit.

 

[spylobster]

Maybe in a future project?

A lot of you dudes and especially the gals have suggested that I start a miniseries on each saga. As good as that sounds I think it would be cool to review some of the famous videos that he has released and do analysis on them, probably only like 5 minutes long each though. But of course I wouldn't do it until I get a blue yeti mic which I have decided to save up for. (Selling that sonichu merch ya know).

Also I am a little sad that the CWCwiki is ignoring my project. I mean I am trying to write this without being self entitled and just a bloated ego and all but I tried to help ya dudes out with the desc giving a link to the CWCwiki telling people to donate, along with the credits. Sorry if this sounds douche tone but I cant think of words to describe it without coming off that way.

I am going to take a step further, planning to interview school psychologist. I asked her before and she said that she would do it but I ran out of time to film. Maybe just as a seperate video.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Also I am a little sad that the CWCwiki is ignoring my project. I mean I am trying to write this without being self entitled and just a bloated ego and all but I tried to help ya dudes out with the desc giving a link to the CWCwiki telling people to donate, along with the credits. Sorry if this sounds douche tone but I cant think of words to describe it without coming off that way.

I mean, what exactly are you looking for? If you have the script of your narration, people could put that in as a long-ass transcript but I'm not sure what other salient things there could be in an article about it.

 

[spylobster]

I mean, what exactly are you looking for? If you have the script of your narration, people could put that in as a long-ass transcript but I'm not sure what other salient things there could be in an article about it.

Oh, no no I mean the thing that was taken awhile ago. There was a da update on my thread but it got taken down. A article would be kind of pointless unless I directly messed with christian using the movie.

 

[Lachance]

Wow I was actually pretty impressed by this. You've got talent, especially for a high school student. I'm afraid I don't have too much to add to the feedback that hasn't already been said. I'm very interested to see what the psychologist will have to say so I'll be keeping up with this. Good job! Edit: fixed spelling

 

[Konstantinos]

Well I watched it all and I have to say, I was quite impressed! For a high school project that was made with no money, it was very objective and informative. Still though, I have a couple of gripes:

• People have probably mentioned this already but the "Abusive Baby Sitter" thing is rather ambiguous. Its not clear whether this really happened the way Chris described so it'd be better to state that.
• Song of Christian can be left out because its not that relevant. The leaked Manchester High homework sheets might be worth spending a few seconds on due to their revealing nature.
• An in-depth explanation for Chris's more insane actions (Any time he's used racial slurs, his gullibility to the trolls, his ego, the attack on Synder and Gamespot, etc) would be beneficial. You merely cite autism but that's vague.
• His general demeanor and his mannerisms (IE, CWC-isms, his wardrobe, the tomgirl phase, etc) could have used more of an explanation. These things are rather noticeable about Chris but they're not given much attention in the documentary.

... and so there's my two cents on the matter. I'd say hand it in as it is now but modify it to your hearts content in the future! I anticipate any updates!