Constructing Reality
A documentary is a piece of work presenting political, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. I believe a proper documentary should present facts objectively without prejudices, should not combine fiction with factual information, and must be truthful. The truth presented in a documentary should be the whole truth, not just a bias presentation of selective information. Through our “Constructing Reality” unit we have learned this is not the case, and that documentaries can be bias and manipulated into the filmmaker’s creative vision of reality. A documentary should consist of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration. To preserve the truth of a story a documentary should not present factual evidence in the form of a re-creation like in “Our Marilyn.” Brenda Longfellow (the director) juxtaposed images of Marilyn Monroe with what I believed was genuine footage of Marilyn Bell swimming across Lake Ontario. The genuine footage was in actuality film of Brenda Longfellow which was then re-worked to appear antique and authentic. This re-creation may seem small and insigni
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Approximate Word count = 752
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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