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La sortie des usines Lumière



I find this documentary genuine. Despite the workers moving either side of the building but this may be because the camera was set up opposite the building. This could have been staged so the director said 'action' for all of the workers to walk out of the factory, or it could have been genuine like how it looks because there is a second before all of the workers walk out of the building.

NightMail



I believe that this documentary is too staged rather than filmed from a daily basis. My reasoning for this is because it is all shot on different days. They also used a toy train set when they shot an aerial shot. They also used a different set of leavers when they filmed the shot of the person rolling he leavers because otherwise they wouldn't be able to fit the camera behind the original leavers, we know this because there was a shot from in front of the leavers.

Bowling for Columbine



I feel as though that this documentary manipulated reality because in this documentary it seemed as though the process was a lot quicker and easier to obtain a firearm that it should be. I think that they used editing to make it seem like a immediate process after signing the process, when in reality it should take longer. I do not find this entirely truthful. He wanted to stress how easy it is to gain a firearm in that area but I don't believe it to be that sudden.

When Louis met Jimmy



I felt as though that this documentary was genuine. I felt that Louis already knew the answers as if he just wanted to expose the truth from Jimmy himself. After questions what had been asked, Jimmy wouldn't answer the questions promptly however Louis would allow him to continue to talk and he allowed silence to linger.

When Louis met the Nazis



I felt that this was also very truthful. I think that Louis had a strong opinion towards their views and was trying to portray that in his documentary. The people how he was interacting with also had very strong opposing views towards him. I felt that Louis was uncomfortable curing this documentary because they are very forward, but he showed us that they are also very timid and do have fears. 

The thin blue line




Personally whilst watching through this documentary, it didn't make a lot of sense; the story jumped all over the place however as all crime investigations, it all came together in the end. It was genuine, despite the cutaways not being genuine footage it still showed us the situation and what happened from everyone's perspective. All of the different stories were very truthful, all of the information which was provided was very genuine to me.


We are the Lambeth boys



Watching this documentary, I thought as though this was genuine to a certain extend but it seemed rather forced. I think that the people in the documentary were genuinely doing those things however because there was a camera involved following them around, it seemed that the actors were forcing to do what they did with more emphasis.