In preparation for this Thursday’s class my group have all been tasked with bringing two scripts each to our studio, all using different genre tropes.
I put my hand up for slasher/classic horror (Wei Yun was taking care of psychological horror) and Mockumentary.
I wasn’t completely sure what constitutes as mockumentary so I tried to do a little bit of reading using our library page.
I had a quick peruse of this work by Cynthia J. Miller, which I hoped would surmise what kind of cinematic factors classify a work as a mockumentary. Rather I discovered that it’s not so much typical visual/textual tropes which define this genre, but its subject matter. Essentially a mockumentary is a work presented as non-fiction with a satirical purpose.
Out of this work I read the Prologue: Nothing New Under The Sun – Or On Film, Part II: Popular Culture As Commentary and the Epilogue: Mockumentaries Meet New Media.
None was particularly helpful so I threw this script together.
