This weekend is almost here and besides the fact that it's memorial day weekend do you know what else it is? It's filming day for the Zombie movie. I have a lot to do. Not only am I going to be the second camera for the short movie I am most likely going to help with lighting and sound. But wait there's more! I also I have to keep in mind my short documentary about the zombie craze. I have to interview people on set and ask them about why they think this culture has become so fascinated by zombies. I need to get B roll for the documentary as well. This weekend is going to be hectic to say the least, but I am very excited about it. I haven't done any filming or editing in a while and I'm really looking forward to diving right into it all again.
I just got a brilliant beyond brilliant idea and you are the first to hear it:
What if instead of making a documentary about why zombies are so popular I made a mocumentary about zombies, there eating habits, there hobbies and so on. I could interview the people who are zombies in the movie and ask them questions as if they're zombies in reality. I could also interview the kids and other "live" people and ask what they think of zombies? Are they scared of them? Do they have any zombie friends? How do they think the zombie epidemic got started? I have never produced a mocumentary before but I have always wanted to. I just never felt like I had a good enough idea to create one... but now I believe it's safe to say that I do. I am very excited about this new idea. It's perfect!
Film vocabulary:
1. B roll
The alternative footage that is intercut over an interview of a documentary.
2. Mocumentary
A type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format.
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