Mockumentaries

I filmed a “mockumentary,” titled Pilgrim’s Progress: Fact or Fiction. It was produced by, “The London Anglican Literary Society” – an organization created specifically for this project. The scholastic contributors to this educational video are as follows: Ryan Ferries (as Dr. William Havelstone & Mortimer Applesberry), Charlie the ceramic figure (as Je-Suis Charlie & Jean Claude De-Gaul), and Conall Doss (as Edwin Pimberton & Not Edward Snowden). The main thesis of this short video is to view

“The Office” is a critically acclaimed comedy television series spanning nine seasons. The show is a “mockumentary” a style of satirical comedy that is crass in nature. But uses its platform to shed light on the hazards of societal norms that reinforce stigmatic ideals. This particular show follows salesmen’s lives around the workplace in a dying work field of a small town. Michael Gary Scott, regional manager of the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. On the surface, he’s

He is known for his witty personality and comic like attributes. He has shown his ability to make people laugh through the TV series “The Office” (2005) ; a mockumentary based on the British counterpart. Jonah Hill Jonah Hill was born and raised in LA. He has starred in many feature films like Superbad (2007), 21 Jump Street (2012). He is known for playing a role of a wimpy fat kid that is clueless about everything

around us. The vampire genre in no different as advancements in technology and the blend in cultural beliefs have resulted in a whole new set of issues that don’t relate to that of a 19th century villager. The purpose of a mockumentary is to make fiction appear as fact. Mockumentaries use the same conventions of documentaries such as archival footage, shots of what appears to be true events and interviews. What We Do In The Shadows parodies the

These past two weeks, while the theatre has been relatively calm, I chose three different pieces of media in order to delve further into my theater knowledge. The first of which is "Waiting for Guffman", a mockumentary on the beginning of a theater company in Blaine, Missouri. The town's resident director, Corky St. Clair, and the amateur cast of a corny small-town musical production go overboard when they hear that Mr. Guffman, representative of the prestigious New York based Oppenheimer Organization

'Modern Family' directed by Steven Levitan is a commercial and hyperreal media work. Modern Family appeals to a mainstream audience by meeting audience expectations of entertainment and relatable content. Modern Family relies heavily upon realism in order to reach its audience and create a show which pleases. This done through the use of surface realism, narrative realism and emotional realism. 'Modern Family' adheres to surface realism in order to create something that looks right and holds a

Dominance is considered to be someone who has power over a certain grouped of people, someone who can be feared or looked up to. Society usually illustrates a white male with dominance in high corporate positions. Women, on the other hand are not seen by society to be dominated and leading people. Our society already views males as a dominated gender and their power as normal or even masculine. In Johnson’s article, he states that the prime minister of Great Britain was called the “Iron Lady”

Wide, sunny beaches, yellow sand and clear water paints the picture perfect Sydney. Cut to Mount Druitt, a town filled with graffiti, garbage, and government housing, where the controversial new documentary Struggle Street is set. This borderline ‘mockumentary’ aims to show a side of Sydney that is rarely seen, but unless the producer – David Galloway - set out to do this in the most depreciating manner possible, the documentary has missed the mark. Although the audience duly tries to feel sympathy

as The Office premiered in the United States. The Office is a mockumentary, a satirical style of comedy that mimics the form of a true documentary film, including private interviews with each character. The winner of multiple Emmy awards and Emmy nominations, The Office, aired for nine seasons. With ratings of 8.8/10 from IMDB and 88% from Rotten Tomatoes it is no surprise that the show is still widely popular today. The mockumentary documents the daily lives of the office employees at Dunder Mifflin

District 9 opens up as if it was a documentary, a ‘mockumentary’ give or take. These first 15 minutes of the film establish the world, fleshed out with interviews, news footage, corporation logs and “found footage” of the alien ship hovering over Johannesburg. It is made clear that these aliens first arrived during the 1980’s and have been living amongst humans ever since. Throughout the 15-minute opening, it is communicated that the extraterrestrials are an unwelcome threat to the people of Johannesburg--