Genre Analysis Mockumentary
We are currently considering to make a movie of the Mockumentary genre. A Mockumentary can be a short film, television show or feature film which looks and sounds like a real life factual documentary when it is actually fictional, basically a fictional documentary.
The codes and conventions of a Mockumentary:
The codes and conventions of a Mockumentary:
- They use the same codes and conventions as a Documentary. A narrator throughout, footage of events, photographs and interviews with 'specialists' or 'witnesses'.
- Interviewee is commonly placed to the left or the right of the screen, with a medium close up shot on them, although close ups or even extreme close ups are used to convey emotion when strong points are made by the interviewee.
- Establishing shots range differently but usually tend to show the place where the documentary is based.
- Archival photos used in docs are used with zooms in and out of the main focus of the photo.
- Archival videos are also used as well to explain the documentary more.
- Mise En Scene in the background of the interviews usually tends to be on the subject or same theme as the documentary
