Pseudo-documentary

A pseudo-documentary or fake documentary is a film or video production that takes the form or style of a documentary film but does not portray real events. Rather, scripted and fictional elements are used to tell the story. The pseudo-documentary, unlike the related mockumentary, is not always intended as satire or humor. It may use documentary camera techniques but with fabricated sets, actors, or situations, and it may use digital effects to alter the filmed scene or even create a wholly synthetic scene.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Jacobs, Delmar G. (2000). Revisioning film traditions: the pseudo-documentary and the neoWestern. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. pp. 55–56. ISBN 0773476490.
  2. ^ Jacobs, Delmar G. (2009). Interrogating the Image: Movies and the World of Film and Television. University Press of America. pp. 30, 188–194. ISBN 978-0761846321.
  3. ^ Jacobs, Delmar G. (1997). Pseudo-documentary: Form and Application in Narrative Feature Film. University of South Florida.