This year, my group and I must create a 5 minute short film. After lots of discussion, we've decided to go with the idea of shooting a mockumentary themed film. We've never shot a mockumentary before, or written the script for this type of film before so a lot of research will have to go into this project as we have practically no experience in this genre of film, bar watching these types of films. The best way for us to research this genre and really get to know it better is to watch a couple of short films, or films in general within the mockumentary genre, and analyse these films in terms of how they're shot, the editing of them, scripting, mise en scene, the target audience, the characters in the film and the social classes represented in these films. I'll also be researching the general codes and conventions of a mockumentary film, which will hopefully be portrayed through the films I'll be researching so I get a general idea of how we should shoot our film in order to apply the codes and conventions to it.
The short films I will be researching are:
- Movie Mind Machine (12 mins)
- Strange Beasts (5 mins)
- The Purge: The Morning After (6 mins)
- In A Relationship (19 mins)
- Crack (12 mins)
The majority of these mockumentaries are classified as comical mockumentaries including; Movie Mind Machine, and The Purge: The Morning After, In A Relationship, and Crack. The reason I chose to analyse these films is because our final film will definitely fit into the comical mockumentary category, so these films will definitely help me to understand the way these types of films are shot and edited. I decided to also analyse a Sci-Fi mockumentary named Strange Beasts, simply so I could see how the codes and conventions of mockumentary films still apply to a more serious mockumentary based on a fictional topic.
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