Perhaps most striking about Pawel Powlikowski’s piece on documentary cinema is the cynical accuracy with which he predicts the rise in popularity of reality television, it is bizare to note that documentary movements like cinema verité, once reverred as paragons of integrety in filmmaking, may now find their place in the lowest common denominator of popular television, being as they are, cost effective to produce and easy to engage with. Furthermore, is bares noting that Powlikowski firmly states that the purpose of documentary film as he sees it, is not to neatly catagorise or resolve subject matter but to disturb and intrigue audiences, displaying the paradoxes, ambiguities and conflicts which exist between situations and characters, it would indeed prove valuable to bear this in mind as the course progresses, as my natural tendency would be to attempt to shape the footage I have collected into a rigidly predetermined brief, ignoring all that which does not support the contention I had hoped to establish.