Editing Nothing So Strange (section)

== Production ==
Flemming was inspired to make a film about a contemporary assassination that grabbed the public attention after wondering what would happen if a Kennedy-style assassination happened during modern times.  Through his research on the Kennedy assassination, he became convinced that there was no conspiracy.<ref name=sfgate>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Beyond-the-big-coverup-Indie-film-takes-on-2671970.php|title=Beyond the big coverup / Indie film takes on conspiracy theories|last=Hartlaub|first=Peter|work=[[SF Gate]]|date=2003-02-10|accessdate=2014-03-25}}</ref>  Flemming himself has no animosity toward Bill Gates, and used many Microsoft products during the making of ''Nothing So Strange''.<ref name=sfgate/>

Very little of the film was scripted. Flemming has said that he wrote no script, providing perhaps a few important lines, and instead putting the creative effort into the details of the props and artifacts of the story. The "Garcetti Report" on the assassination, for example, is a complete document written by Flemming. The actors improvised most of their own dialogue, interactions, and reflections, and to some extent aiming the direction of the story along with their organization, with minor daily cues from Flemming. Most of the actors had no prior professional acting experience.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}

Another technique is what Flemming has termed "reality-hacking"; the interaction of the actors in character with the real world. A scene taking place on the protest stage of the 2000 [[Democratic National Convention]] was filmed at the real convention, and Flemming crashed a real police commission hearing.<ref name=sfgate/>

Flemming [[open source]]d all seventy hours of footage he shot, allowing other people to make their own cut.<ref name=sfgate/>