Today we all learned something fresh about documentary - is that no documentary is 100% real. Well, it is not exactly something new for us, but we personally experienced it today. Even how hard we try to not 'alter' the truth / the reality, at some point of the production, we have to make choices and those choices can somehow affect the genuineness of the representation of truth.
For the sake of the visual aesthetic of this documentary, we had to set up the scene to make it looks better on camera. Similar to drama's shooting, today's cutaway shoot was very much staged and acted. We had to ask Ron and Janice (the clients) to wear the same clothing, sit on the couch with the same pose and nicely place JR (their dog) in between them. Another example would be us shooting Esther's part. After shooting an over the shoulder shot of Esther, I had to tilt her computer a little to the left so it would look better on the camera.
No wonder they call it 'True Lies'.
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