Our documentary overall went relatively successfully, although there were some minor issues along the way, that required us to take some creative liberties.
For example, the opening scene of our documentary is a reflexive moment where we walk into the reception and pretend to ask the direction to the interview. This was faked, but it helps us to set up the film correctly, to make sure the people around act in the way we want them to. It can be argued that this takes away from the idea of representing 'truth' in the documentary, but I would say to be honest that because the overall message is not really impacted by this minor change at it is only done for viewing convenience, it doesn't really create an issue for the main themes. This idea of the creative treatment of actuality is also interesting, as I feel like we did try to stick to this idea of actuality as much as possible when really talking to people, but of course, we did stray into the subjective sometimes, particularly with some of the editing, for example moving from Olden's claims that Christianity is becoming more prevalent to editing showing people saying they are not religious. We clearly express some form of opinion there, trying to contradict her statements, possibly purely for controversy. The emotional aspect of the documentary, or the pathos technique, is not really utilised particularly well enough. Modes of documentary being particularly effective for this are performative and reflexive, as this is one of the most underused modes in the documentary. Emotional manipulation is something we try and move away from in the documentary in general. While we may be subjective sometimes, I wouldn't say we really try and pull at any emotions, mostly relying on logos to deliver our points. I think the interview technique may be where some emotion comes out but this is limited. Overall, our documentary went kinda well, but there were definitely some manipulative decisions we made that question whether our documentary is really representing the 'truth'. However, I think we expressed our message relatively successfully, despite some issues throughout.
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