s broadcast to provide a plausible account.All documentaries manipulate their materials to a certain degree. Mock documentaries depend on this manipulation of truth. Traditional ethnographic documentaries just like mockumentaries take liberties with their material to present a constructed view. The practice of editing selects particular footage to convey a message and leaves other images omitted. The word manipulation in the meticulously written and highly emotional voice-over narration serve to project one view. Part of what makes a mock documentary successful is its ability to exist as the same time in the world of the fictive and the world of the actual. A mock documentary's stance is that the specific world it projects does not really exist, though the larger world that encompasses that specific world does exist and can be studied through the lens of the smaller, more specific world. By making assertions about its projected world a mock documentary, like a traditional documentary, can refer to the actual world. ...
