MOCKU�FOR �CHANGE

FEDORA has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 872841

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FEDORA, Future-oriented Science Education to enhance Responsibility and Engagement in the society of acceleration and uncertainty, is a 3-year EU-funded project. It started in September 2020 and will deploy its activities until August 2023. It gathers 6 partner institutions from 5 European countries.

WHAT DOES

IT MEANS

TO TELL ABOUT

CLIMATE CHANGE?

• Do you have any artistic/cultural references (songs, paintings, books, etc.)?

• Can you easily express to others what it means to you, how it makes you feel?

• How has been told you about it at school?

CLIMATE STORIES

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THE GREAT DERANGEMENT

Amitav Ghosh in his book "The great derrangement" (2017) discuss how culture, and literature in particular, is reacting to Climate Change.

Many non-fiction books, but very few novels.

What about Cli-Fi? �

It is too often associated with science fiction.�

"It's as if in the literary imagination climate change is somehow related to extraterrestrials or time travel."

Is this concealment of reality in contemporary art and literature such that "this age of ours, so proud of its awareness, will be called the epoch of Great Derangement"?

• The same goes for the film world. An example of this is the "Cinema for the climate" selection of this year's Cannes Film Festival: 7 films, 6 of which are documentaries.

MODERN NOVEL

CLIMATE CHANGE

Change in the calculation of probabilities: "if this happened in a novel no one would believe it". �

• Banishing of the improbable and the insertion of the everyday

• Focus on individual �moral adventures

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"the dominant culture has excluded the idea of collectivity from politics, economics and even literature."�

• Extreme weather events are becoming less rare.

• It is a social and global challenge

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• It concerns the present and the recent past, but above all the future

• Settled mostly in the present or the past

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Is the future just science fiction stuff?�

FICTION

NON-FICTION

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• Modern novel
• Climate Fiction
• Science fiction

• Non-fiction books
• Documentaries

THE MOCKUMENTARY

A DEFINITION: �audiovisual product that craft a fictional story in the form of a documentary.�

There are conventions that we, as viewers, associate with a story based on reality. Some example of those conventions: interviews, handheld camera, explanations from a voiceover.�

Sometimes it is defined genre, other times it is defined style, since it is the way a particular genre can be crafted: a mockumentary can be comic, dramatic, horror, journalistic...�

"imitate", usually with ironic intent�

It is also called pseudo-documentary or fake documentary.�

«MOCK» + «DOCUMENTARY».

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DID YOU KNOW THE GENRE?

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SHORT STORY OF MOCKU GENRE

• 1938 –War of the worlds: Radio program
• 1957 – Spaghetti Harvest
• 1965 – The war game
• 1969 – Prendi i soldi e scappa: First comedy
• 1980 – Cannibal Holocaust: First Horror
• 1984 – This is Spinal Tap: First biographical
• 1999 – The blair witch project
• 2001 – The office UK: First tv series
• 2002 – Dark side of the moon
• 2006 – Borat and Death of a president
• 2008 – Cloverfield

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CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES

• Modern family (2009 – 2020)
• What we do in the shadow (2014)
• American vandal (2017 -2018)
• REC (2007)
• Paranormal activity (2007)
• Incident of Loch Ness (2004)
• I’m still here! (2010)
• German spot(2020)

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THE MOCKUMENTARY FEATURES

Typical visual/stylistic techniques that mockumentary get from documentary:

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Visual comfort is lowered to achieve the effect of a "real" scene, captured while it was unfolding.�

Intimate connection with the characters: emotions, points of view. Explanation or story of what can not be shown.�

Comment on footage of others, external gaze, mystery on missing / unavailable characters.�

• HAND-HELD CAMERA
• BAD FRAMED FOOTAGE

• 4^th WALL BREAKING� INTERVIEWS� VOICEOVER

• FOUND FOOTAGE

CARATTERISTICHE STILISTICHE & GENERI

• MOCKUMENTARY COMICO
• Mira a ridicolizzare i personaggi o ad usarli per esporre in modo satirico un problema politico sociale o interpersonale.
• Esempio di stile: intervista seguita da prove -> intervista seguita da scene che contraddicono l’intervistato.

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• MOCKUMENTARY HORROR
• «Ci siamo resi conto che la paura non è altro che credibilità e partecipazione. Quanto più si crede a quello che sta accadendo attorno a noi (sullo schermo in questo caso) tanto più siamo coinvolti e di conseguenza maggiore è la paura.»
• - Jaume Balaguerò
• Esempio di stile: filmati girati da persone scomparse.

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OUR TASK

TO REALISE A

SHORT MOCKUMENTARY

ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE FUTURE SCEARIOS

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GOAL :

• To produce a 5 minutes video.

AGENDA :

DESIGN

WRITING

SHOOTING

EDITING

DELIVERY

…

6 - TODAY

7 h. 15-17

9 h. 15-17

13 h. 15-17

14

15

DECEMBER

Private meetings for each group!

OUR FILM �FESTIVAL

PLS

15 DECEMBER 2021

3 – 6 pm

KEYWORDS / FEATURES

FUTURE

COMPLEXITY

REALITY

VALUES

EMOTIONS

SOLUTIONS

AGENCY

POSSIBLE SCENARIOS�

CIRCULAR CAUSALITY�

RELATIONS

KNOWLEDGE

COLLECTIVITY

ECO-ANXIETY

CHOICES

FEEDBACK

DATA

POLICY

MULTIDIMENSIONALITY

EPISTEMIC EMOTIONS

FUTURE CONE

MULTI-STAKEHOLDER

TENSIONS, NOT DICHOTOMIES

• FICTION –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– NON-FICTION
• INDIVIDUAL –––––––––––––––––––––––––– COLLECTIVITY
• REFLECTION/�LEARNING ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– AGENCY
• SIMPLE –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– COMPLEX

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PHASE #1 - DESIGN

OBJECTIVE: DELINEATE POSSIBLE CHARACTERS

TIME AVAILABLE: 30 minutes

WORKING PLATFORM: JAMEBOARDS

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SUGGESTION:

The final video has to be short, so focus just on one fundamental concept to tell. It could help to think about something you care about that is a risk because of Climate Change.��Try to think of the characters in relation to the various social/cultural/economic points of view .�

SOME RANDOM IDEAS TO DEVELOP :

• What would a science documentary tell in the future?� What if someone in the future found and commented on video footage of the present?

LET’S IMAGINE THE FUTURE!