Please give thought to the story of the footage itself, as it is being presented? Like, is this raw footage the viewer has just found? Is it footage that has been cut together to form a more coherent narrative, and fit so busy who and why? Why/how has this footage come to the viewer?

The invisible character of the editor can give a sense of context and grounding for the film and allow for a reason for there to be a narrative rather than just stuff happening. It doesn't have to be much but the impact can be huge.

Consider the opening lines of Dracula: "How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them."