Drop Dead Gorgeous

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a mockumentary that follows a teen beauty pageant in America. The opening sequence consists of typical conventions like the written introduction that sets the time and place. The character also showed

Awareness to the camera and the lay out was in interview format, with a title introducing the characters. These are all useful conventions of a mockumentary that establish the genre of the film from the beginning; we plan to use conventions like these in our opening sequence to convey a mockumentary. The non-diegetic music that plays in the background is very patriotic and represents the pageant as being a typical American occurrence. The camera movements are typical of a mockumentary as they are shaky and sometimes out of focus. For example when the character is adjusting her hair the camera zooms out and focuses on her to add realism. The sub-title comes up

showing her name and profession so that the audience know her the character is and her importance to the story. We cam also her the interviewers voice showing that the interview is in progress, this is very typical of a mockumentary because it adds realism to the interview. There are tracking shots of the public acting naturally

And although they acknowledge the camera they do not change their behavior. This represents that it is in fact real life and not scripted conveying the style of a documentary even though mockumentary's are in fact scripted and pretend to be based on fact.