Bart Layton is known for his gripping documentaries that feel more like you are watching a gripping fiction drama as opposed to real life events that happened to real people's lives. His approach to documentary consists of many reconstructions of the stories he is telling alongside multiple interviews with the people involved. The narrative he conducts creates suspense and inner turmoil within the audience that keeps their attention fixated on the events unfolding on the screen. He is a very interesting director to have studied because his approach to interviews, particularly in his film The Imposter, could be argued as quite manipulative and 'well edited' into how he wanted the audience to interpret this version of events. His film The Imposter, explores a young boy who went missing and years later someone claiming to be him has been found. As the story unfolds and the plot thickens, there are several twists and turns that shock and excite the audience, making them question both the innocent and the guilty parties in the film. There could be a question of ethics regarding the family's emotions when and if they ever watch the film however there is a very large air of suspicion looming over the entirety of the film.
When we come to do our Documentary, I don't think it would be a good idea to conduct the film in this way because it is a completely different atmosphere and story that we are going for. However in terms of the editing, it is very fascinating to see how a story that could be told very linear can be approached in so many different ways making The Imposter an exhilarating watch.
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