Incorporating Complexity into Film

I have been struggling with how to incorporate the methodological flaws of the Media Research Center into my documentary film. For the first time, I have organized my thoughts as clearly and succinctly as I can in this blog post.

But the medium of web writing and the medium of film are completely different, and it will be very difficult to make the same caliber of an argument within The Echo Chamber documentary.

A writer has more freedom to use complex words and phrases that carry very specific meanings, and adding a hypertext link allows the reader to learn more about the difference between an inductive and hypothetico-deductive method of scientific inquiry.

But with the film medium, it is much more difficult to explain and incorporate this sort of complexity. Our culture is not prepared to handle such nuances of rhetorical meaning, and therefore it is not very emotionally engaging and as a result very tedious and boring. But yet it is not impossible.

I am searching for a good way to incorporate the sentiment of this liberal bias critique into the final film using the many quotes that I received from our interviews with journalists and a representative from the conservative watchdog group Accuracy in Media.

I’ll probably end up using blog posts like this as footnotes for the final film.

The process of writing out this argument in a way that I would ideally like to make it has allowed me the freedom to begin simplifying it down to the essential components.

It has also given me additional perspective on my own claims – Do I have an Echo Chamber theory or an Echo Chamber hypothesis?

I hope to get around these types of debatable rhetorical issues by using theories that have already been well-established by the academic community.