The film demonstrates how action scenes in a film are creating using stunt performers, editing and special effects. Each bit in an action setpiece in an imaginary movie are demonstrated how they are created, then put together to demonstrate how they will look in the completed feature film. Action includes unarmed combat, gunfights, the pyrotechnics of an electrocution scene, and a car and motorcycle chase.
In Citizen Kane, Welles plays Charles Foster Kane, whose fictional life partially mirrors that of Hearst's. However, Chicago inventor and utilities magnate Samuel Insull, Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, and even Welles's own life were used in creating Kane.
Stranger with a Camera explores the conditions that fueled the murder of Canadian filmmaker Hugh O’Connor as well as the implications his death has for filmmakers.
The film follows Craig's relationships over a twenty-year period using answer phone tapes and photos of the time. The recordings were originally kept as 'a sort of diary' though this eventually developed into the film.
With the help of their indie production team and Johnny Depp fans around the world, Garcia and Baxendale chronicle their quest to hand deliver the guitar and script to Johnny Depp, all the while filming their journey.