Mockumentary

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Mockumentary

• A real life PowerPoint presentation by Chris
  Baker and Nathan Meyer

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• Mockumentary (n.) A film or television program
  that is shot like a documentary but is fictitious
  and usually satirical.
• (Source www.dictionary.com)
• The term mockumentary is a portmanteau of mock
  and documentary.
• (source www.wikipedia.com)

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Characteristics of a Mockumentary

• Satirical
• Funny/Humorous
• Fictitious
• Sometimes Political
• Thought provoking

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Setting

• The setting for a Mockumentary can take place
  anywhere that a documentary might be filmed
• An office building
• A news studio
• A movie set
• A persons home

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Characters

• Interviewer/camera crew
• Subject (sports team/athlete, celebrity,
  political figure, newscaster, etc)

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Storylines

• Serialized installments of the everyday
• -The Office
• -Spinal Tap
• -Curb Your Enthusiasm
• The events surrounding a big event
• -Best in Show
• -A Mighty Wind
• -Waiting for Guffman
• Cataloging the events of a journey
• -Borat

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Themes

• Christopher Guest I am interested in the notion
  that people can become so obsessed by their world
  that they lose sense and awareness of how they
  appear to other people. They're so earnest about
  it.
• The inherent humor of the human experience.

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Value Assumptions

• Life is funny.
• Humor can be created anywhere out of anything.
• People, for all of their weirdness, can learn to
  live together.
• Eccentricity is mocked and celebrated.

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The most famous Mockumentarian of modern day
Christopher Guest
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Other Famous Mockumentaries of the Big Screen
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Mockumentaries written for T.V.
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