foureyedinabox

I agree with airscottie but I'd go one step further and say this footage should be entirely reworked from the ground up. An entire new edit is necessary.

My honest advice; hand this footage over to an experienced documentary director and editor. Work with them and let them take the lead in creating a real documentary film from this footage.

You did your part and I commend you for that but to have this footage reach a real audience, the footage needs to be completely reproached.

Let humor play out in the footage, the honest interactions between people, not in the amateur post production work, not in fake accents or bad voice over.

Do a Kickstarter campaign, raise some money to shoot additional B-roll and interviews. Take this seriously, don't waste your time by making this a joke and doing all the post production work yourself when it's clearly not to your strong suit.

This experiment and raw footage has the potential in the right hands to be a powerful documentary which could get festival attention and online distribution.

Maracas

Don't make the professional version alone, work with professionals!

Finding a girl with an accent in a hostel to do voice over, that's so out there. The voice over should be written and read by someone that can give the voice over weight and read with dramatic presentation not just a girl with accent.

I bet there is some better footage that could be used in that hard drive. Find a Denver film editor/director and hand over the footage to them to handle.

Please Capnjasbo, post links to /r/documentary, /r/editing, /r/videography /r/docproduction

Ask around for help from Denver or Colorado film makers, someone is bound to want to help you. If I lived in Denver, I would help you but I don't.

I really believe this project needs proper professional attention and it could go far. Look at the response from this AMA from the Denver community members, you could have "Supersize me" level experiment which to lead to greater national attention to homelessness.

Use indiegogo.com, it's just like kickstarter but you dont have to make a firm goal to rise money.

I do know documentary film makers but none in the Denver area. Ask around.