Many successful films and TV shows have succeeded in fooling their audiences by masquerading film or digital footage as being real. The idea is that you create a documentary style appearance which translates into the audience believing what they're seeing more.If it appears awkward, or slightly amateurish, nine times out of ten your audience will interpret that what they're seeing is an actual record of events... If created properly.Take films like "Cannibal Holocaust" or "The Blair Witch Project" for example. Why did these films have their audiences so engrossed? They believed what they were watching. The images they saw seemed more convincing and plausible based on the fact that the camera work was slightly (or extremely) shaky, implying the camera operator didn't use a tripod or dolly, but went handheld... With that, the audience forgot that a camera was being used and their minds moved to believe what they were seeing was real. The way it interacted with the story being told was vital, the camera shook when relevant and remained quite static when not, however it was rarely one hundred percent level so as to always have an implication of being held.Your aim, whether you're making a mockumentary ...
