Mighty redcar task

1. Mighty Redcar task
1. Can a documentary be objective? Why do you believe this?
I believe that a documentary can be objective but more than not they are mostly biased and this is becauseno matter
what way you look at lotthere is always someonetryingto gain something so they bend the perceptions in their favour.
It is extremely difficultfor mostfilm-makers to objectively capture reality on screen, as through the process of making
the filmand becoming more and more familiar with the characters involved in its story,itis a natural reaction to draw
conclusionsand consequentially becomebiased. Also another hugely influential aspectof documentary filmmaking is
the editing process,not only must a filmmaker choose what questions to explore and who to followon screen to make a
filmobjective, the editing process mustalso be objectivein choosingwhatparts of the filmto cut and which ones to
leave in the final draft
THEREALMEGANFOX states that “There is such a finelinebetween an objective documentary and a biased one, so I have
found it quite hard to find a documentary which I would consider to be truly objective.”
2. How far should weaccept whatwe watch/read? Why?
A dictionary offers several descriptionsof “truth”. It is explained as fidelity or constancy,sincerity in action,character
and utterance, or as facts – the “real” state of things.It can also mean a judgement, a proposition,an idea,or statement
that is true or accepted as true. It can be the property of being in accordanceto with fact or reality. However, the daily
use of this word, as well as words associated to it or used as synonyms,becomes increasingly problematic.Even the
dictionary description of “truth” includes the equally problematic concepts such as “reality”and “real”. We can except
everything that we want becauseI believe that most different truths you should know and have lots of different opinions
on one view because you will find nearly everything’s untrue to bend reality.Also some people use click baitthese days
as we are in a social media dependent era.
3. How can we make surewhata documentary presents as fact, is true?
Language is ableto shapereality,and thus, cinema contributes to the social construction of reality.These in their turn
are linked to knowledge, and what we perceive or interpret as truth or real. All claims arebased on a limited review on
key contributions in things such as sociology and philosophy.By investigatingtruth, truth claims,and truth-tellingwithin
documentary film,we may find new approaches to address, problematizeand understand these issues also in a broader
perspective.
We can only ensure this if the documentary in questions supports these facts with hard backed evidence but then again
everybody has their own opinion so how do we as a viewer know if it’s true. We can also look atwho created the
documentary and see how biased their opinion is.