Documentaries

What is a documentary?
A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.
Documentaries are primarily used to inform people on taboo topics and can often be controversial, but they can also be purely scientific or historical, including documentaries such as 'secrets of the terracotta warriors' however there is another version; mockumentaries.

What is a Mockumentary?
A television programme or film which takes the form of a serious documentary in order to satirize its subject.

Mockumentaries that you may have seen include;
- The Office
-Borat
-The Dictator
-Ali-G in da house

In class we have started to produce a mockumentary ourselves about a boy who struggles to pronounce vowels and this is currently in production. We are doing this short mockumentary as practise or our two minute opening to get used to the shooting process and the production process.