Crafting Truth: Documentary Form and Meaning

Documentaries such as Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman'sBorn into Brothels, Michael Moore'sFahrenheit 9/11, Jeffrey Blitz'sSpellbound, along withMarch.
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Transcript of Crafting Truth: Documentary Form and Meaning Crafting Truth: Responsibility "I asked a subject to redo an interview in order to get a more emotionally rich version of a painful moment when he had been abused by police in prison. The second time, 'he was crying, I was crying, we were all crying. It was so powerful. After I wrapped, I felt like a real shit for the rest of the day, felt like I manipulated him for my personal gain. It is a powerful moment in the film but I felt bad to push him to that point when he broke down.

Unbeknownst to me, the animal wrangler broke the next rabbit's leg, so it couldn't run. So we got one shot of the successful hunt. On the next take, they then asked, 'Should we break its leg again? I made the decision, let them break it.

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It eats me up every day. Others Reception - Who is the receiver? Who is he or she? Reconciling the trust the subjects give the filmmaker with his or her power to use and interpret their image, words, and actions is a complex task that often calls for sensitivity, humility, and forethought. My only gripe with this book is its somewhat repetitive nature; perhaps this is just me though, I realize that some modes of analysis of film overlap with each other and thus concepts are similar but named differently. But in general, I enjoy this book and it was one of the more enjoyable books of my collegiate career: Honestly I felt like the author was padding the book with as many examples as possible, beyond what was necessary to make her claims, in order to make it longer.


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It was like reading one of my students' essays where you know that they were just trying to meet a certain word count after they'd already proven their point. One person found this helpful. Great product and quick delivery. I used this book for the first time this semester for an undergrad course in documentary, and I've been very pleased with it.

The authors deal with the complexities of constructing reality in the doc "crafting" is a wonderful term for this, much more successful than texts that take the "representing" route with clear and lucid prose. I also like the organization of the book, and am especially grateful for the last section, on editing, mise-en-scene, and sound--makes this a great text for classes in which students complement reading and screening with filmmaking projects--not a technical guide, those are a dime a dozen--but a conceptual guide to how those elements signify and this can be manipulated.


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