Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Research into other Mockumentaries

Research into similar stuff.

First film I'm going to talk about is "Borat". It's film produced by Four by Two, Everyman Pictures, Dune Entertainment (in association with), Major Studio Partners (in association with)
One America, Four by Two Films and distributed by many different distribution companies all over the world. It's 84 minutes long but it's format and theme is somewhat similar to ours, it mocks modern society of America and Kazakhstan. on IMDB it received rating of 7.3 from users. I haven't found an official web site to that film but IMDB says a lot about film itself http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443453/ showing all information about film. Apparently most of film wasn't scripted and was filmed as normal documentary which shows not fake reaction from public but also brought many lawsuits to film makers. Reviews range between "The funniest comedy of 2006" to "Horrible film" as a lot of people found offensive the way they represent some groups.
Trailer shows first 2 minutes of actual film and already showing how ridiculous this film is and how it shows Kazakhstan people live which slightly offensive in my opinion but really funny and it all is filmed like some kind of documentary, which is the purpose of mockumentary.

The other mockumentary I'm going to research on is "Hell's Grannies" by Monty Python sketch show. It is part of the show originally a sketch, but it is made in a way any documentary would be made except the laughter of the audience. In this sketch it all starts like normal documentary talking about new gang of streets of town but the suddenly it shows grannies attack young people.
The narrator keeps talking about it as a normal documentary telling all they do and problems they cause. There are interviews with "victims" and they talk about what grannies did to them and all of this sounds ridiculous and funny. It is relevant to our documentary as it shows kind of sub culture and what they're doing, of course not in serious way but it's made to make people laugh but if not to count laughter it is made as a serious documentary. They show things that granny do but they copy most of things that modern young people do. For example graffiti made on wall "make tea not peace" connected to younger generations draw graffitis all over walls. Or street violence that referred to a lot of nowadays criminals who are usually very young. So theme of this mockumentary sketch is close to us as it explains one of sub cultures... Grannies in Monty Python and Students in our mockumentary.



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