The bad news: I'm starting to feel somewhat...disillusioned, I suppose. Maybe it's just that I'm not experienced. Or maybe I'm naive. I'm just somewhat taken aback and quite quite disappointed in the crew's behaviour.
I guess I can understand why they did what they did. The material we got from our interviewee was amazing, substantial stuff that goes a long way towards building our story. We're talking medical experiments straight out of Fringe, and creepy war stories. And he's not lying, either; he lived through it.
Even then, I'm not certain what we did was right. Do I want that material? Yes. Am I willing to compromise my principles for it? No. But it's not up to me, is it? Democracy; it doesn't always lead to the right decisions.
That said, maybe they are right, and I'm just being silly, clinging on to my textbook principles. After all, I've never done this in real life before; student projects are a whole different thing. And for all that we try to cling on to what's "right", sometimes it just doesn't work all that well in reality. If it wasn't for subterfuge and a quest for the truth, some of the biggest news stories may never have broken. It is our job in the making of this documentary to make sure the truth is depicted. I do wish I could've got it without having to resort to this. But it's a learning point. Maybe I just need to be more charming and persuasive.
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