Hearing Is Believing: Directorial Prerogative and Ethical Dilemmas in Documentary Sound Design

In this essay, Marcus Gillezeau examines issues relating to the ethical dilemmas that arise when constructing the sound edit and sound design for a documentary. He looks briefly at two Australian film-makers, Captain Frank Hurley and Damien Parer, and how they breached the principle of truthful representation in both picture and sound.