The web series 'Saigon Archive' centres around several online videos made by an amateur vlogger trying to uncover an internet conspiracy. After the clip of a young woman encountering a ghost went viral, aspiring vlogger Minh took the chance to make a name for himself by digging into the mystery and exposing the truth through his amateur vlogs. Instead, he finds a much more profound mystery about murder, a broken family and dangling threads of a bigger conspiracy. Inspired by a particular horror genre closely tied to online digital platforms, “analog horror”, this series was conceived to bring the audience closer to the experience by convincing them that everything shown on screen has happened. The audience is invited to follow closely with Minh through his camera as he films everything he goes through, with each episode posted on his Facebook page, making his journey personal and authentic. All the crew and cast’s efforts were to make the series as raw and realistic as possible, from conception to distribution, to create the illusion of a one-person crew bumbling around and trying to make sense of the story he has gotten himself tangled in.
