I am very interested in how my specific product represents the real world considering that a majority of it is made up of heavily edited footage. I would say that the mixed media b-roll in my film is not necessarily there to reenact certain scenarios or events that are being talked about in the documentary but rather to represent them more abstractly.

 For example, toward the end of the documentary, we purposefully avoid using the mixed media b-roll that we made. The reason why we used a naturally shot b-roll in this section is that it was our interviewee was talking about a very personal and sensitive topic. We did not want to take away from it with lots of drawing and paper cutouts so instead, we let her tell her story instead of us doing it. 

I think that this highlights the dynamic as well as the type of documentary I had made. I made a film that would be considered a participatory documentary due to the way both me (the filmmaker) and the interviewee take turns in telling the story that is being told (Bill Nichols, 1991). I think that shot that comes right after music from Intoxicated with the pause in black is really impactful and does a great job of representing the real world. I think it shows that even in such a fun and powerful story like Sylvie’s there are still moments of struggle, which I believe that specific show captures well. It is the first blank black shot in the whole film and comes right after Sylvie says “That’s it”. I subvert the expectation of the viewers who think that the documentary is coming to an end once Sylvie explains why she and her band broke up. Yet it gives a new insight into something bad that happened and how someone recovered from it, which I think is a very accurate representation of the real world.