The Role Of A Documentarian

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The role of a documentarian is to tell a story contained of important tales in the world where the truths that they want to tell are either ignored or hidden. By producing their film, documentarians owe their viewers the justification of the manipulation of individual facts, sequences and meanings of not only the images, but the stories they have been told. Documentarians also owe their viewers the accuracy and integrity of their work. I don't think that documentarians can give the public their own interpretation of the events because they could threaten the credibility of the final product. Documentarians also could not give their own interpretations of the events because they would not be able to properly license the footage

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