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Originally Posted by rhetorical
That is how most documentaries are made. Michael Moore's films are not documentaries, however.
When you go looking for funding for a doc, you start with a premise that you are going to prove. That is what gets you the money.
I am not sure why you have a problem with this.
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There is a huge difference between a premise and a conclusion. When you work from a premise, you may still end up with a different story if the interviews and the data reveal something different from what you went looking for. Working from a conclusion, you would just eliminate all the data that doesn't agree with you and go from there.
It is the different between drawing a conclusion based on the information you have, or selecting info to support your pre-set conclusion.