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Around 35:30 to 40:00, the film explains the altercation between Hobart Ison and Hugh O’Connor, which ended with O’Connor being shot and killed. Elizabeth Barret, the documentarian, could’ve used one person to narrate the entire scene. Instead, Barret decided to use a conglomerate of different storytellers to narrate what happened. Using people from both sides of the story and using some of O’Connor’s archival footage helps build this narrative and tension. Using the trees where the altercation occurred, which is something that Barrett does to help increase psychological tension and show where in the story we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This scene could have been easily made without the gunshot sounds added, but they add to the tension due to the current narrative. Barret is demonstrating the conflict between a documentarian’s goal to reveal important truths and Ison’s protection over his land and the potential false representation the documentary could bring. The psychological tension is created due to both sides trying to do their own job. This is heightened by using allies of both parties to share the story that was occurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This type of scene is not unique to this movie. This type of tension is seen in Coles. ” ‘Serves us right for being so convenient to you folks, and telling the school people we’d accept visitors,’ she said, and I recall thinking hard about that word accept. To be sure, it was an aspect of a particular vernacular, but it had a message for all of us; we are asking for a kind of forbearance from people who are often considerably more burdened than we are, hence our obligation to think carefully about how we approach such people and how we are with them.” (p.79) This passage helps us realize that people are not as comfortable with sharing their private lives as documentarians think. This is the ethical dilemma that documentarians must think through. Documentarians must approach these dilemmas as normal humans rather than as subjects of their documentaries. Barret, being from the area where the shooting occurred, Barret grew up as a neighbor with a camera instead of a stranger like O’Connor was. Barret knows what the town is like around cameras and people caring about their privacy. She understands that cameras aren’t normal for the citizens of this town and uses her knowledge to create her film.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around 35:30 to 40:00, the film explains the altercation between Hobart Ison and Hugh O’Connor, which ended with O’Connor being shot and killed. Elizabeth Barret, the documentarian, could’ve used one person to narrate the entire scene. Instead, Barret decided to use a conglomerate of different storytellers to narrate what happened. Using people from both sides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsalguero.bergbuilds.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsalguero.bergbuilds.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsalguero.bergbuilds.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsalguero.bergbuilds.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsalguero.bergbuilds.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/samsalguero.bergbuilds.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/samsalguero.bergbuilds.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsalguero.bergbuilds.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsalguero.bergbuilds.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsalguero.bergbuilds.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}