Mockumentary ideas?

- Do a play on a school shooting, only instead of the shooter using a gun, it's a video camera. Have scripted interviews with "survivors", chronicling your pass through of the school. Fake screams, maybe you can use the sound of a camera shutter as fake gunshots. If you have a younger brother, you should also try to film "your" start with a camera obsession, "shooting" the neighbor's dog or something. You'd probably want to use a disclaimer that you don't take school shootings lightly or something, I guess.

- Do a play on a haunting, only at the end, you find out that the house wasn't haunted by a ghost.

You start off by interviewing people talking about noises and seeing things inside the house. Really try to set the tone as dark, surreal. Have some of your interviews go badly, people having psychotic breaks, etc. You have to show the viewer that these people believe it's haunted, but you don't. Then, you have to assemble a crew of a few of you(3-5) to go into the house. As you go along, you see spider webs all over, bad smells, etc. One of your teammates screams and you run(with the camera) to find him/her. They're gone. As you keep going, you start to hear things. Your teammates don't hear anything, however. Keep moving, and another one goes missing. At this point, whoever is left leaves you there alone. You keep going, and in the basement, you find nothing but a dirty teddy bear. As you're making your way back, you hear moaning. You run to them, and find the first person who went missing, now with white hair(scared so badly it turned white). They aren't bloody, but with their last bit of life, they look beyond the camera(you) and scream, "IT'S BEHIND YOU!" The camera turns around, and then you hear rustling, white flashes, crazy noises, and you run out of the house. Everything cuts black. The camera comes back on(showing you, not as you) as you're in the police station, taking a statement. The sketch artist is scribbling, and you look up. You scream, "Oh, no! It followed me here!" and you jump up, making the clipboard fall out of his hand. The camera slowly zooms in on the clipboard on the ground until you can make out a half completed drawing of a house fly. The officer standing beside the sketch artist looks over and says, "Dude, there's a fly on your head," and the sketch artist shooes it away. Then the screen goes black, and you hear a buzz that sounds oddly like a demonic laugh.

Anyway, a mockumentary isn't simply a satirical documentary. It comes from "mock-documentary", and is just a fake documentary. Usually comedic in nature. The Office is a pretty well known mockumentary, along with Borat, etc.

 
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