Mockumentary

In this essay I will examine the cultural significance of Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night. Examining its influence on other films and cultural phenomena, I shall argue that Lester’s film invented or popularized many filmic conventions now considered standard in the movie and television industry.This paper covers concepts such as montage theory, jump cuts, camera shots, French New Wave, art film (especially surrealism), realism (documentary), and performance of the ‘actors’ (particularly accents)

The Blair Witch Project is a highly successful and widely innovative independent film that was released on July 30th, 1999. The film followed three student filmmakers who aimed to create a documentary about a local legend called the Blair Witch. While the film alluded to various hallmarks of the horror film genre, it was groundbreaking in its marketing strategy, the use of found footage, and cinematography. In many ways, The Blair Witch Project adheres to various tropes and traditions of the horror

Indeed, this is like that because the creators Christopher Lloyd & Steven Levitan, made this TV sitcom particularly in a Mockumentary style or (docu-comedy style, in which means that they present the events in a documentary style just to create comedy. “Modern Family” have that particular style of using more camera movements than the show of “Everybody loves Raymond”, that is

As a society in the ‘land down under’, certain personality profiles are viewed as the class clowns of the community, just by the way they act. Chris Lilley’s cleverly produced mockumentary, Summer Heights High (SHH), adopts these stereotypes presenting them as immensely exaggerated representations. Lilley’s show comprises of Ja’mie King, a snobby and manipulative private school girl, Mr G, a self-absorbed drama teacher, and Jonah Takalua, a rebellious 15 year old boy of Tongan descent, commonly associated

I am profoundly sorry to hear about you’re concern as a parent. Ms Vogt has informed me of the complaint, and I understand that you may be distraught and troubled about the use of the “mockumentary”, Summer Heights High within your child’s classroom. You may feel that your child may be influenced by some of the actions within the piece, but there is nothing to worry about at all! Everything is under control and we know what is best! As part of the year 11 English curriculum, all English classes are

Mockumentaries are an over-looked current new genre of television, According to Dictionary.com they are “a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.” Most mockumentaries often overlap into the comedy genre, and are sometimes called satirical or parody documentaries. Dictionary.com also states the word parody as, “a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing.” American Vandal and Making a Murderer are two effectively different

the narrative story-telling aspect. The 1980s saw the development of the “mockumentary”, using a script and fictional characters but filmed using the same style as a typical documentary. The 1980s also saw the expansion of PBS funding and production of informative and point-of-view documentaries. More recently, we have entered the age of “reality-TV”, although many would say those shows are more akin to mockumentaries than reality. (UC Berkeley Media Resources Center,

available worldwide, yet The Office is an extremely popular television series that could possibly be the show of the century. The show holds an outstanding amount of awards, including the best television series in 2006 and 2008. The Office is a mockumentary about the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This television series consists of nine seasons with about twenty episodes in each season. The show contains several immature office workers who behave inappropriately with ego clashes

Vulgar, Raunchy, and Canadian The Showcase Television Network series, Trailer Park Boys, is a Canadian mockumentary created and directed by Mike Clattenburg. The show covers the shenanigans and crimes of the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park residents. Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles, the three protagonists, are constantly on the hunt for ways to make money, find liquor, and stay out of jail. All the while, their sworn enemies - the drunken trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey, and the perpetually shirtless

mocking ethnic minorities at their expense to gets some laughs” said an outraged viewer. Now, let us take a closer look at one of Lilley’s mockumentaries, ‘Jonah from Tonga’ (see picture below). ‘Jonah from Tonga’ is an Australian television series written by and starring Lilley. A satirical technique such as reversal is used throughout this whole mockumentary. It’s TV series that follows the life of Jonah Takalua, a rebellious 14 year old Australian boy of Tongan background who had been introduced