Throughout our film opening we chose to use and develop the conventions of mockumentaries rather than challenge them. The conventions of a mockumentary often define whether it is in fact a mockumentary rather than just another comedy and so challenging these conventions would prove to be difficult.
Titles
With our titles we chose to use a fairly basic font as is traditionally used, this is because technical and aesthetic aspects are not largely focussed on in the mockumentary genre as it is meant to appear to be a documentary.
'Talent' clips
We began our opening with clips of talents in a talent show, giving a brief glimpse of what the film would entail as is often done in mockumentaries. The bottom screenshot is from the film Drop Dead Gorgeous which opens with a show of the pageant that takes place throughout the film, this is something we used in our own film opening to both start to introduce the idea of the film to an audience as well as for the comedy of it.
Interview clips
One of the most common conventions of a mockumentary is that of the interview style clips, something that we used on several occasions to communicate the storyline to the audience.
Comedy clips
Comedy is an essential part of the mockumentary genre, it's used in a subtle way so that whilst the comedy is still there it would still be believable as a documentary as well. For example in Drop Dead Gorgeous, the main characters is practicing her talent but the situation she is in at the time (putting make-up in a body at the morgue) turns this into a comedic scene. We however chose to do something much simpler to create the comedy, which was to have our main character dance badly as she tries to compete with her rival.
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