The Importance of Lying was a documentary idea proposal I produced for my Short Form Documentary module in the final year of my BA (Hons).
It was one of the ideas I considered before I partnered up with my peer Tom and we co-created the Fencing documentary.
I produced a few ideas for the module, but I've included this one here on my blog because it deals with the theme of 'What is authentic'. This is a theme which crops up again and again in the projects I produced after I graduated, most notably The Miracle Mockumentary and 365 Frames 2015.
The idea is very thin and is mostly theoretical; containing very little substance or subject matter that could have been filmed and made into a short documentary.
Documentary Proposal: The Importance of Lying
Maybe
Local
Yes
Do you have access?
Potentially
Why is it interesting?
I believe lying is an integral component of the Human makeup; I think anyone who believes they don't lie is lying to themselves. It would be interesting to explore the role lying plays in day-to-day life, why we do it, why we need to do it, do we need to do it and how Humans are still able to establish a form of trust which transcends beyond the very basic forms of a lie or a truth.
What will you add or what will we learn?
It would be great to do a character study of a con artist for this, but I don't know any con artists (although, you could talk to an MP or a sales person instead). Therefore, interviewing various people from different backgrounds (you decide) you could present their opinions on "the importance of lying" and determine one or more of the things I said in the previous box. At the moment, I can't really think of a way to make it more visually interesting. Although, you could do a reflexive documentary and look at how the documentary is presenting a truth of reality through a lie (something along the lines of 'F for Fake'), a documentary is never going to present reality 100% authentically.
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