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in the world. But, Inside Story, rather than searching for truth by exposing misconceptions and
lies, strives to reveal truth through the passion and proficiency of the interview subjects.
4.2 Review of Additional Texts
This project was originally proposed as a hybrid documentary, meaning that it might
incorporate the use of different modes. A hybrid documentary may use the strategies of both
documentary and fictional filmmaking. A hybrid may use animations, re-creations, intentionally
directed sequences, or special effects. But, because of circumstances and the necessities of
time and budget Inside Story has evolved into an almost exclusively expository documentary.
The expository mode emphasizes rhetorical content. Its goal is to inform or persuade. It is
imbued with a set of implied values and a preferred meaning. That meaning is usually
expressed through a narrator. I only know this and am able to distinguish the particular traits
and conventions of various documentary styles because Bill Nichols pioneered the conceptual
scheme of documentary modes that all documentarians are now familiar with. So, it is
appropriate that I have reviewed relevant parts of his book, Representing Reality: Issues and
Concepts in Documentary.
In the final stages of postproduction I have cut out all traces of narration. The exposition
and authority is now borne exclusively by my interview subjects. They are asserting their
subjective opinions. Their opinions are usually backed by research, but they are occasionally
contradicted by others in their fields. Because I have edited the film to achieve specific goals it
is not an objective discourse, but rather expresses my own subjective opinions. So, it is
somewhat disconcerting knowing that Nichols connects the truthfulness of a documentary to
its objectivity (Nichols, Blurred Boundaries, 95). I am comforted though, by Stella Bruzzi who
says:
It is perhaps more generous and worthwhile to simply accept that a
documentary can never be the real world, that the camera can never capture
life as it would have unraveled had it not interfered, and the results of this
collision between apparatus and subject are what constitutes a documentary -
not the utopian vision of what might have transpired if only the camera had not29
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