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Review Of The Film 'Forgotten Silver'

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A mockumentary is basically a mocking version of what a documentary actually is, it is television programs and movies that are made similar to documentaries although with fictional and made up characters, scenes and back grounds. Keep in mind that mockumentaries use the same conventions as documentaries it if often than not just a hoax, that is made to test the audiences’ beliefs. In the year of 1995, writers and directors Costa Botes and Peter Jackson produced “Forgotten Silver” which is a mock of a documentary based on Colin McKenzie a former filmmaker whose prestigious work and inventions were lost in the past. This film was aired on television in 1995 with a renowned cast of historians and realisateurs that were interviewed, which made it harder for the audience not to believe. Apart from that, the techniques and modes that Costa Botes and Peter Jackson used were so precise and identical to a documentary including the fact …show more content…

He is a dominant part of the film industry who was interviewed in the movie, with the fact that he was part of the mockumentary it aided towards the fabricated documentary being a modem of truth, and it is by these particular details and administration of symbols and signs that the mock-film manifests in the mind of a majority of the nation, they also positioned the film on the myth of popular New Zealand settlers which intrigued Colin to ‘invent’ the tracking shot; which was posthumously understood and indifferently absorbed without trying to interpret the adversity that went through them. Forgotten Silver has managed to illustrate to New Zealand, through a fictional character, not only the economical complications that the original inventors had to face just to have their creations and inventions accepted or even recognized. The result of this ended up being a lesson to New Zealand or at least it increased the audience’s attention of basic values and cinema being a medium by

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