Mockumentary

The multi award-winning mockumentary 'We Can Be Heroes' created by Chris Lilley is a "broad satirical swipe" that reveals the true nature and behaviour of your everyday Australian and analyses the very core of our modern identity as a nation. Produced by and featuring Lilley as all of the five ‘heroes’, the short series follows the fate of five optimistic 'Australian of the Year' nominees as they anticipate the announcement of the finalists for the prestigious award. Each individual nominee…

Through the Gift Shop is a real phenomenon in the world of cinema. It is the so perfect documentary creation that breaks the documentary genre and rightfully intrudes into the world of the feature film. You can even boldly suggest that this film is a mockumentary provocation of Banksy. He was not only an outstanding artist but also a good…

Look Up and Teenage Affluenza There is no doubt that social media has become a major part of the lives of billions of people across the globe. The immense power of the internet is both positive and negative; it can be used for an organization to spread awareness of a charitable cause, or it can encourage ridiculous gossip stories that internet trolls thrive off. However, there is no doubt that the internet plays a key role in today’s mass mediated communication. This is proven through Gary…

In the mockumentary, “Leaked: The Internet Must Go”, a market researcher, John Wooley, was hired by Internet service providers (ISP) to do market research and talk to people to help them sell their new vision; eliminating net neutrality to reach maximum profit potential. Over many years, ISP has spent billions of dollars to build towers that bring Americans the Internet. However, they believe that there is too much traffic. Their solution to this problem is the “Internet must go”. ISP wanted to…

The video also relied heavily on the French mockumentary of the Apollo moon landings called The Dark Side of the Moon. The film begins its claim with there being a skeleton crew of two actors and two technicians working in Stanley Kubrik’s set to film the moon landing. These four men where supposedly…

In the genre of political television programs, most shows are noted for their serious and dramatic acting and plot. Many of those shows have a male as the main character while the women are noted to be minor, yet important characters to the plot. That is not the case for the popular series Parks and Recreation (2009 - 2015). Based in small town Pawnee, Indiana the show centers around the life of government workers in the parks department. The series presents issues of feminism, and patriarchy.…

The Australian television series “Summer Heights High”, whilst being quite popular in both a domestic or international sense, has not had a noticeable or lasting impact on global popular culture. Throughout the course of this multi-modal presentation I will be further exploring this statement, as well as a diverse range of subtopics that will help to further expand on the reasoning and logic behind it, these subtopics being; How the Television series was received globally/how successful was it…

working as a freelancing journalist for Canada Now. He was cast as Malik in popular Global TV series Da Kink in My Hair for two years. He played the lead role of Jake in the 2009 critically acclaimed play Secrets of a Black Boy. He appeared in the mockumentary Pure Pwnage as well as guest roles in The CW's fantasy horror series Supernatural. He was also cast in The CW's medical drama Emily Owens, M.D., Showcase's sci-fi miniseries Eve of Destruction and CTV's police crime drama Motive. In 2014,…

Office, an American television comedy series that aired on NBC from March 24, 2005 to May 16, 2013, depicts the mundane lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. It takes on the style of the mockumentary, with Michael Scott (portrayed by Steve Carell) as the leading character of the series, who serves as Regional Manager of the branch. The show derives its humor from the superiority theory, in which Michael demonstrates conflicting values…

specifically on the place that I work: University of Maryland Athletics Facilities, Operations, and Events. Following in stride with countless other popular shows such as The Office and Parks and Recreation, I would also have my show be expressed in a mockumentary fashion. While it may seem that these types of shows are becoming overdone, I think having the perspective be from that of college students would give it a fresh new look while also added to its brilliance. I also believe that there is…