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

Some documentary films present facts, but those facts don't always represent the whole truth. "Journey" is an example of how truthful facts can be used to only represent one point of view. The filmmaker used only negative information about the media and did a lot of speculation, they never bothered to discuss the positive aspects of the media like the awareness they can spread. The film was unfair and not a true documentary. "Memorandum" was another movie we watched that seemed one sided, however I can imagine it would be hard for the filmmaker to portrait the people on trail in any other way.

It is astonishingly simple how a good editor can create a fictional story by carefully arranging and manipulating reliable and factual information. This point is best illustrated in "The Edit," a film showing how two different people can manipulate footage into different poles of the reality. "The Edit" was fascinating in that the simple removing of keys words and parts of a conversation can dramatically alter the perception we have of the man being interrogated. Editing especially in interviews should have guidel

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