Friday 23 December 2016

EverWing - All Dragons, Hints and Tips

I've been playing this game for the past 2 weeks and love it. I still haven't completed collecting all of the dragons yet but I will be updating the dragons over the coming weeks as I unlock them all. With regular updates from the creators of EverWing, expect new dragons and game updates soon. First things first.....

COMMON DRAGONS - 4000 Coins 


MOONBITE / MOONCHOMP / 


TIP - Don't waste your money in the beginning on the more expensive dragon eggs. 

BUBBLES / SEAFOAM /


FLO / FLORA /


TIP - If you match dragons zodiac signs when evolving them, you get a DMG bonus.


RARE DRAGONS - 12,000 Coins - 90% Rare 10% Legendary


BLIZZLE / GLAYCHE /


TIP - Once the Darkfire Volcanos quest unlocks, Level 1 dragons will only take 8 hours to Level 10 if you use Fiona, Guardian of Dragons (2x Dragon XP). 

MOSS / SHRUBB /


GLOWBEAN / GLORIA


TIP - Once unlocked, save up and upgrade Lily Guardian of Fortune (2x Coins bonus). Best guardian for boosting money for more dragon eggs :)

CLIPSY / ASTREON


CINDE / VOLADILE


NYM / ONDAS


Tuesday 22 March 2016

Charity Shark Dive - Semester 2 update

Hello everyone, sorry I haven't posted in a while, its been a hectic couple of months. I've spent the past few months of semester two learning about Producing, Commissioning Work and Film Analysis Two. I have to admit 2nd year has been the best year so far at the University of South Wales, with the work load being even less than year one arguably but neverless the subjects we are learning now, blow first year out of the water. Producing is by far my most favourite area and its been an eye opener to how much a creative producer actually does towards a film; coming up with an idea, requiring money for the film, legal paperwork, recruitment, shoot scheduling and budgeting, marketing and then distribution to name but a few. Commissioning Project was fun and will go into more details what we have got up to in that, in my next blog. Film Analysis Two is not as fun as the rest but I will also be writing a blog on this as well at some point detailing the subject matter I have chosen for the essay we have been set. Anyway moving on to sharks.......
































Over the past couple of days I have spent the day filming my sister doing a charity shark dive in the Blue Planet Aquarium; compiling the shots into a quick short video. It was a fun half an hour shoot and gave me a chance to try out my GH4 for the second time, managing to achieve some half decent shots. I found the thick glass problematic however when it came to focusing but the camera worked great in the low lighting. Would love to try filming some videos underwater in the near future but in the mean time, check out the video below to see how it came out...







Saturday 16 January 2016

Remaking Zombie Short - 'Forsaken'

Its been 2 years since me and Andy Bush created the zombie short 'Forsaken'. Now a year and a half through university, I am gathering a bigger team of filmmakers and is in the early stages of tackling this film again. For me I love this story and looking back I recognise that huge areas of this story I just wasn't able to achieved as effectively as I would have liked.

How will the new film improve on the original?


Locations:- This is one of the first steps of improvement. The majority of the original series is set in the countryside, the use of more 'urban' environments will help to add more grittiness and create a more claustrophobic atmosphere. The replacement of the small bedroom for an abandoned factory will also give us a lot more flexibility to be more inventive with the props, surroundings and lighting within the room. The general use of graffiti is something I want to remain within the story.

Story Development:- The story in the original is its overall downfall for me. Choosing to focus more on the visual side and the limited timeframe, I cut corners to complete this film. This time round I am not giving a required 'time length' to the film,  no time limit on completing production and have recruited a writer to better project this story to the audience. We are keeping the underlying story and the ending but the rest is being torn apart starting from fresh. The end product will be an almost completely different film.

Soundtrack/Sound:- In the original I just grabbed royalty free soundtracks and just chucked them in there. During the first year of uni you discover this is a massive no/no and if anything, corrupts the story your trying to deliver. So for the new film I will be getting someone to produce the music for and will use a lot less of it to build up the tension in the appropriate places. The use of sound effects within the film (Zombie Growls, flashbacks etc) will be improved massively also on the original, hiring 2 members of crew to work on collecting sound during shooting and foley in Post-Production. 


I will be keeping regular updates on my blog and Facebook page so keep an eye out for more details soon. Until then here is a couple links below to the original zombie short below:-


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Monday 2 November 2015

Truth and Telling - Reflection

Over the past month we have been inspired to reflect on the possibility of truth telling in documentary filmmaking. As a student filmmaker I never thought to seek out what truth really meant, but over the passing months I have come to realise how much truth isn't actually true, when it comes to documentary making. The knowledge I have learnt on this subject matter will play a major role over the rest of my career as I strive to make myself a better filmmaker. The 3 blogs I have chosen to tackle, challenged my understanding of; What truth actually is? How point of view effects the truth? and What can I do as a filmmaker to achieve the most truthful film? The first steps I took into understanding what truth really is, was to first seek to understand the word. Looking at the multiple different theory's of truth, I discovered that all truths relied upon two things:-

Truth is something that can only be discovered to be true in the future but 'real' truth can only exist in the present. Meaning, peoples minds change throughout their lives, making truth adaptable to the changes that happen in our environments over time. Its only once we are in the future when we've acquired more knowledge on the given subject, does it reveal itself to be the truth or a lie (within their present time). This follows on to the second point; that truth is solely based upon ones own understanding of the world we live in. How it's from your own experiences/views/understanding of the subject in question, that will portray what you believe as the truth. My own mind can also create fake truths that don't even exist but our mind tricks us into believing them to be real, causing even our mind and what we remember to be questioned. Using this information, it pointed me towards the idea that truth can only be captured in that moment; The smells, taste, sounds, feelings, scenario and what lead you to that moment, cannot at this present time be captured on film effectively enough to call it 'Truth'.

Using this, I focused my second blog to search deeper into the understanding of point of view in documentary filmmaking; how not only does the filmmakers own POV effect the outcome of the film but also the audiences own understanding of the subject plays a role. People are susceptible to being told lies and in visual storytelling, it's even harder to tell if what you're being shown is real or not compared with seeing it for yourself in reality. I've noticed that people who share a strong viewpoint towards a subject material within a film, will be more susceptible to fall for any lies or bent truths, if it reflects their own current way of thinking. For me, trying to discover what truth really is, has opened up my mind to the prospect that there is no 'whole' truth in documentary films. That a documentary film really is only a one sided story on a particular subject and it's only through gaining multiple POVs, that it will give us a better understanding of that truth. I believe that we will never achieve an absolute truth in our lifetime, but we may be able to capture some elements of visual truths and stories caught in that moment of time presently. Which leads me to my final blog: trying to discover what truths are told in documentary.

I found that one of 'truths' biggest attributes is honesty. I discovered that a lot of documentaries would actually bend or break truths in order to try and deliver a bigger underlining message that needed awareness. I found that there is a scale to truth telling in film in a form that the more honest the documentary film is with an audience the more truthful it became. The most truthful documentary someone could create would be the one remaining closest to a totally neutral/unbiased argument. Reality itself is built upon opposites, the 'two sides to every story' (Ying/Yang), and it's only once you combine truths from multiple sides in unison, can we create the closest attempt of a perfectly truthful film; to not feed an audience your version of the truth, but allow the audience to go away and draw up their own mind on what they want to believe as truth. The best and most truthful films are the one's that leave you with more questions than answers; real documentary is the 99.99% boring stuff that happens off camera in reality, while documentary 'filmmaking' is shaping the 0.01% into a story using only the best bits - which in reality, doesn't come close to truthful storytelling.

My conclusion is there is no such thing as an infinite truth. I believe as we evolve, we strive to understand and develop our understanding of what the truth really is. Thanks to technology (with a huge part being the emergence of the internet), the likes of the media and our governments are now struggling to hide the truth from us, with most people now no longer taking everything we watch/read for granted. As technology advances and we evolve ourselves as a race, I believe film will play a major role in shaping the code and conventions of truth in telling. One thing will never change however is our own individual viewpoints of the 'truth' and we will not always share the same truths with the rest of the world, but this is what makes us who we are. The more access we have to information, to seek our own knowledge and understanding on a subject, having the freedom to generate our own understanding/version of the truth is what truth really is.

Making it Knowledge + Time = Truth!


Thursday 29 October 2015

Truth and Telling - Truth in the Lie?

Documentary Definition - Movies, Television. Based on re-creating an actual event, era, life story, etc., that purports to be factually accurate and contains no fictional elements:

My Definition of Truth: A fictitious word used to describe an event/subject to be what one believes is a right/honest statement. A word which belongs in the present but can only exist in the future: it's not until we discover all the information to be correct, can we acknowledge something as true, "Only time will tell"! And 'ALL' this is based upon the underlining ideology that reality is actually real and not a figment of our imagination!

This bringing me to my number one thing that defines what truth is for us (but betrays us the most), is our very own minds. I've spoken a lot in my past blogs about how everyone has their own variation of reality and because of this we all have are own understanding of the truth: but there is a fine line however that can be blurred between reality and our own imagination. As time goes by, our memories become clouded. The more we recall them the more they change, yet we still believe everything we remember to be true. We can even invent whole new memories after a traumatic experience, or even create events that haven't even happened; this is known as 'False Memory'.

Then there is the opposite side to the scale; we as humans are renown for not telling the truth. Why are humans the only known species wired to deceive both themselves and others? Why do we lie and at what point does it become a problem? There are many reasons why one would lie; this could be down to anything from self-esteem, protection for you, friends or loved ones (be it feelings or from danger), to getting thrills or feelings of power over the use of manipulation. We are so programmed to lie that we are incapable from separating fact from fiction. A famous game called 'Chinese Whispers' can be used as a great example of how even the smallest lie or inaccuracy passing on information, can drastically change from one person to another by the time it reaches its source. So if you were to apply this structure to filmmaking, everyone from the interviewee, the factual information, word of mouth, point of views, visual footage and story, all come from a human source; not all this information can be trusted.

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" - Mark Twain

Truth is captured in the moment. A pathway of lies has many twists and turns, only truth is a straight line, the shortest distance between two points. This quote by Mark Twain, captured my imagination as I reflected on his words. I started contrasting them with the words spoken to us by guest lecturer Tom Ware (documentary filmmaker), "lots of little lies to build a bigger truth". What fascinates me is the outlook both of these two people have on this subject, the contradiction between Mark Twain, the fiction writer and Tom Ware, the documentary filmmaker. Why is it that the man who creates fiction believes in truth, while a man who seeks to tell the truth believes in the use of lies to do so?

Tom's quote really opens up what filmmaking's about and sheds some light onto why some truths can never be told; he spoke of how the law can stop a lot of truth getting into a documentary to protect vulnerable people, especially children. How by telling some truths you can drastically change the way people live, people could lose jobs, risk their lives, bring people fame or even ruin them. With just these points alone, you can really see why some filmmakers are reluctant to use the truth or can really test their values if they do so. With his quote ringing in my ears I researched films built on lies and discovered that many are in fact true works of fiction. Below are three popular documentaries with one even winning an oscar and all share elements of fiction to tell there story; all however do so for differing reasons.



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Nanook Of The North:- Is the first feature length documentary ever made but is also known as one of the first to stage events in the film portraying it as reality. To create this film Robert Flaherty had to bend the truth in order to show what life was like for the 'Inuits' before the European influences. To do this he had to create fake 3 sided igloos (as his camera gear wouldn't fit), script a whole scene were Nanook (also fake name) pretends to not know what a  gramophone record is and bites it (to create a comical reaction from the audience). He also had Nanook hunt walrus using methods no longer used, the use of spears instead of the rifles. Even his wives were faked and were in fact believed to be Flaherty's common wives.

Flaherty, even though bending the truth, did something never been done before. His work was the forefather of many modern day conventions of documentary filmmaking such as; third-person narration, subjective tone and casting a lead indigenous character as the hero (ethnographic film).  He went through great lengths to create and show their way of life, living with them for a year to create the film. Technology of the time impeded his ability to film on the move, making it difficult to show any reality which involved non static shots. My question would be, can people get past his deceptiveness and appreciate what the bigger truth he was trying to achieve? I hope you can but nevertheless I do find it truly amazing that the directer John Grierson, actually coined the word 'Documentary' (nonfictional motion picture) for Flaherty's film 'Moana', while being renown for using so many fake truths in his films.

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Super Size Me:- This documentary set out to attack fast food commercialism in America to tackle the amount of people being overweight. He believes that all fast food chains should be held accountable for this problem and should be sued by the people who are affected; McDonalds being in the main firing line. Morgan Spurlock documented the transition his body endured over 30 days eating nothing but McDonalds meals with no exercise/physical activity. This documentary isn't exactly a lie but however is based on a grand Non-Surprise; if you were to force yourself to eat double your average amount of food intake every day of any food you are going to gain weight. This film with all its animations, 'basic science' and onscreen personality, manages to dupe a big audience to turn on McDonalds and fast food in general. The supersize element to the programme (only happened 3 times) and was his own artificial rule to hasten his dietary demise for the audience. The end result, SuperSize Me was nothing more than a not so clever satirical attack on the fast-food industry netting Spurlock his share of fame and fortune.




What did the documentary actually achieve? The obesity problem across the western world has been a huge problem for years. This documentary really shakes people into thinking twice before eating fast food and just bad food in general. It also caused McDonalds to lose its Super Size option off the menu and started a 'Go Active' healthy meals campaign. Most food places/all major fast food franchises now having to clearly label the nutritional values of all it's food and drinks. This film may blame the food outlets but for me you can clearly see its the people who are to blame for their own overeating, McDonalds is just catering to the supply and demand. The 'Science' in this film has been tested under lab conditions and they are unable to replicate what Spurlock went through; the 5000 calorie number claimed is also proved to be faked as even the 3 highest calorie meals would still come nowhere near the number he told the audience. Another documentary film was created to show how someone can even lose weight on a McDonalds only diet - 'Fathead'.

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Winged Migration:- This beautifully shot (oscar award winning) masterpiece follows migrating birds as they navigate their way across the dangerous landscapes for survival. As the film unfolds you can almost feel like your're flying with the birds as you traverse with them across the landscapes ranging from the picturesque to the breathtaking. It's sad however that most of the film is a lie, no more than just a reconstruction of birds on a migration. Half the birds shown in the film were raised from birth (filming pets); these birds were then being shipped around the world to the beautiful locations, filming the birds in the air for a few minutes using a 'Ultralight' plane, then shipping them off again to the next location. Even the adjacent storylines were all staged to create the drama; the likes of avalanches, near trampling by wild horses, eaten by crabs and the oil in the factory to name just a few. The crew would even intervene in nature with the crab shot being a main example; it was edited to make it seem like the crabs ate the injured bird, when in reality the filmmakers saved the bird and gave the crabs dead fish, making us think they got the bird. The worst faked shot for me was the oil shot in the factory, as it was made to look like the 'manmade' factory had caused the death of this bird, when in reality was all shot in a studio setting using vegetable oil and milk.


Nature documentaries is one of the hardest things to document. Camera operators spend weeks/months in all climates to catch just a glimpse of some of the most elusive creatures on the planet. Even knowing how they can be faked, I am still awed by their visual beauty and story telling, that it doesn't matter for me; I'm still being shown an insight that I would never have witnessed in my own life. This documentary shines a light on what the migrating birds life could be like and possible dangers it might encounter on the way. How its not just mother nature that can cause the death of these beautiful animals but also the carelessness of humans has an impact on their lives i.e. Fishing nets, rubbish, oil spills and the harvester in film representing the deforestation epidemic sweeping across the globe. For me the magic doesn't just lie in the life this film portrays but in the clever construction of the film; how the filmmakers were able to show the migration of birds, seeming every bit a documentary but created using the same amount of fictional elements of storytelling as a fiction film.

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For me its all storytelling. Bigger truths, half truths, lies. Its all film. The argument I feel is that filmmakers shouldn't hide the fact that they use fake elements within these films while proceeding to advertise it as otherwise. People enjoy watching fiction for story just as much as documentary, the main thing that separates them is documentary is delivered to be real while we all know fiction is built on lies. There are many variations of filmmaking the truth, each believing their way is the most truthful and I guess we all have our own opinion on which works most for us. The best documentaries for me are the ones that try to remain the most unbiased, they don't use fake elements or hide facts and tell the story that needs telling. Be honest with the audience about how you constructed the film; You all have your own views on the topic, don't tell the audience what to believe, but make a film that lets them go away and make up their own mind!






Tuesday 13 October 2015

Truth and Telling - Point of View in Storytelling


"You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge."- Margaret Atwood

Following on from the 'What is the Truth' blog; I sought to find an understanding to documentary filmmaking by exploring one of its core aspects, which I believe is behind nearly every documentary ever made; POV (Point of view). What is POV? How is it linked to the truth? Is there a 100% truthful point of view? These are some of the questions I tried to discover answers for. Point of view, to put in the most basic terms is someone's opinion/interpretation of events/reality. This type of thinking puts POV into the Pragmatic/Subjective truth theory of storytelling; having your own viewpoint that you believe is true, is true for you. As mentioned in the last blog, truth can only be in the present as nothing is set in stone, circumstances may change, which could effect your overall way of thinking on a particular subject matter.

If we introduce multiple perspective storytelling, you can see where the cracks begin to form when relying on a single individual's POV in storytelling; a documentary can't be defined by anyone's individual POV, rather unifying multiple views together, can we try to form a bigger and more accurate picture. Just by changing the angle or sounds within a shot can drastically change the story or event witnessed by an individual. There is always more than one side to a story. Most documentaries/news are meant to gather multiple POV's to provide us with totally correct, truthful and unbiased viewpoints.... but do you really believe this statement to be true?

My answer to this would be no, there is no real truth! All people have differentiating views whether political/cultural/moral/religious/etc, we all have our own POV on the information being fed to us; this difference is reflected in all areas of the media, causing people to segregate usually into 2 different groups, a left or right wing spectrum of thinking. When media provides us with news, depending on who's broadcasting/producing the news, we will receive either a more left or right winged standpoint on the story being shown. This aspect reflects everything in our lives, we either agree, disagree or have no opinion on the matter.

A good example of POV storytelling could be the documentary 'Blackfish'. A great documentary, with its goal being the 100% abolishment of the use of orca whales as entertainment; providing 'factual' information on bad living conditions in tiny confinements, food deprivation and being ripped from their mothers at birth, along with human deaths, it's a very emotional film. In reality, from a neutral standpoint you would also speak on the positives of what the corporation does such as brings in jobs, money, entertainment and interest into the animals to public, cares for them and feeds them daily and the scientific research that is gained from studying them in captivity; going off memory alone, I recall it being only a one way biased documentary filled with 'facts'. Are all the facts they give you true? Who knows. The documentary in itself, a great piece of storytelling, so successful in fact that it has caused the business to lose millions of dollars, hundreds of jobs lost (with the potential of thousands going), all over the use of a handful of whales. The public got behind it so much the government has recently introduced a law which prohibits breeding of the orcas in captivity, which may be the final nail in the coffin for the company. BBC News Article.

This documentary storytelling is interesting, especially how it can change/influence so many people around the world taking everything they tell us as facts. The filmmakers are responsible for the loss of so many jobs, if they had skirted the truth and provided fictional elements to the storytelling should they be held accountable? Is providing facts that can't be proven not slander? If you really look at the 'Blackfish' documentary in depth, using the same structure, you could apply it to all zoo's/circus' around the world and even more intriguing, your very own pets. Is it not the same to have your pets kept in small enclosures, taught tricks, inbred and taken from their parents at a young age? The only main difference between your pet and Seaworld, is we are not making money from it.

It is so rare to come across a totally impartial news/documentary outlet, with the modern structure being compiled of a pyramid of POV's with only the people in charge choosing what to reveal to us as truth i.e. Government/Media tycoons. Granted with the emergence of the internet we have access to an unlimited supply of information but from now with so many different sources, we are no longer able to differentiate what is being told as the truth, or a fictitious truth. There is no 'Whole Picture', only a network of dots that we have to connect up ourselves. Knowing this, when constructing a story together, these are a few truth theories being used to construct a documentary film;

- Pragmatic Truths are used when gathering the individual stories in the documentary, usually given by the members of the public/interviewee's. Moral truth could also be linked into this category, as it's almost instinct to know when something is right or wrong like stealing or killing people.
- Scientific Truth is used to prove facts which is also known as empirical evidence, using the basis that if an experiment is conducted many times with the same outcome, then it is scientific truth. These facts are generally used in science/criminal/historical/nature based documentaries. 'What happened to whom, where, when,how, and who'?
- Historical truth seems self explanatory but a popular phrase attributed to Winston Churchill, "history is written by the victors" shows that not everything we read is to be taken for granted. This again is similar to science in the sense that, as we were not there to witness the event, archaeologists have to compile evidence by reading relevant material and conducting their own digs to prove what really happened. (Coherence Truth Theory).
- Aesthetic Truth, this is the most relevant truth when coming to any form of media given to us. That everything seen in pictures, read in novels or watched in films/tv is not always actually true however, we might say its 'believable'. That it is 'true to life' or could happen in reality - although it is not actually true itself, 'Fiction'.

So if I was to make a documentary using public opinions, I would have to find multiple story POVs to construct the film, while also unintentionally (or intentionally), adding my own personal opinions and views to the story. This makes it more difficult to the viewer to discern any real Truth; meaning i'm bringing my own interpretation of the truth to you. No matter how many scientific facts I use/POVs/pragmatic/coherence/correspondence truths, I am creating a work of fiction in the name of documentary film making. Do you care it's not true? Most don't. For many, the visual storytelling is never meant to be black and white, but more the story which grasps them. In a nature documentary a fully 100% truthful documentary of an animal would be boring, you would just have a series of unedited shots with nothing much happening. Add a story of survival, include predators, adventures, emotional soundtrack and a narrated story, then you have created a work of fiction, captured from the truthful footage and made it interesting to watch. You would not have created a 100% truthful film but neither is it a full fiction, we have just cut the boring stuff out. In essence we can only reveal so much to an audience and it's up to the individual to make their own interpretation of that media, to generate their own conclusions, an aesthetic truth.

Comment below with your views on the topic being discussed, be great to hear your opinion.

Chris Deakin

Friday 2 October 2015

Truth And Telling - What is the Truth?

Truth. A word used daily throughout the world, yet it's meaning is far from black and white. What is truth? The answer is not a simple one as there are many definitions of truth. What one perceives as "the truth" may not be to others and that which may be contrived as 'the truth" may have been created by a false truth to begin with. On this basis alone the argument is; how is a filmmaker ever to create a film delivering the complete truth, when there are so many variations of the truth? Here are a couple of differentiating theories I want to explore in more detail...

Correspondence/Observable/Scientific Truth:- "Truth is telling it like it is". This theory works on the principle that a statement/claim has to work with reality for it to be true, example: "It's raining outside", would be a true statement if it's raining in 'reality'. Statement = Fact. If we apply this to reality however, finding the truth works in some cases but is more difficult than it identifies itself to be.

Take social media for example. Social media and the internet has been a huge driving force behind providing the world with false information, so much so, that we almost take every bit of information we read, hear or see with a pinch of salt; fake articles, fraudulent emails, scams, placebos, propaganda, governments, news papers, tv, films, friends and family all lie to us in some way, shape or form daily. You only have to take a look at this graph taken from google to show you that the word truth is over-shadowed by lies.


Word use over time: Truth

Word use over time: Lies
(Images taken from google search)


Science seeks to find the truth almost religiously. It is a source we as a species, rely on to bring us the truth and answers to reality. However nearly all science believed to be true today is always proved to be wrong in the future, bringing me to the conclusion that truth can only belong in 'present' time.

If you plan on constructing a film you are already producing an untrue documentary, as truth can only ever belong in the present; the future is 'unpredictable' and the past 'adaptable'. Images captured in the present will only capture a variation of truth, not an absolute truth. The captured images for the film could be fabricated to represent truth, the footage is then constructed to tell a story created in someones mind to reveal a biased 'Pragmatic Truth' of reality.  

Pragmatic/Subjective Truth:- "Our ideas are 'true' when they work to solve problems". This theory is one that resinates within you personally, generated from your own beliefs and experiences of the world around you. An example of this would be to look at William James' outlook on religion; believing that even with no real proof that God exists, if you find that believing in God helps your life/existence to become more fulfilling, then for you, the truth is there is a God.    

Unlike correspondence, the pragmatic theory believes that truth is changeable, rather than being concrete and absolute; that it can take a long time to discover if something is true or not based on if it does or doesn't work with the individual successfully. Applying this to documentary film, you will discover over time that some your own personal beliefs may change and that your own experiences play a major role in what you take to be truth in the film.

Bringing us to the final conclusion drawn from the 2 theories above; the word truth both does/doesn't exist in reality today. Having both correspondence and pragmatic truths only being able to exist in the present, means that no documentary film will ever be able to make an absolute truthful documentary film. However you as the filmmaker are able to create your own interpretation of the truth and it will be up to the individual viewer to choose what he wishes to believe and take away as the truth from the documentary film.  

So, can we ever film a fully unbiased film conforming to the ideology of 'Truth? I don't believe you can. But how would you create a documentary film to be able to bring the audience the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Please share your thoughts below by dropping a comment...


Chris Deakin