Influence: The King of Kong: A fistful of quarters

Jake and I came to the conlcusion we are going to make a "Mockumentary" film based around the reuniting of a Call of Duty clan, so we went and researched some documentaries, to see how real ones were done, and then we could parody them. We found the most influential one to be "The King of Kon: a fistful of quarters" as this film was not only based around video games, it was the exact kind of documentary we wanted, one that involved simply talking to people about a topic one by one.

The first title that comes up is the production company's, it is very big and nice looking, with the name in bright lights, before repeating the title again in a simple white on black title, we will most likely do something like this, as we feel it will work very well, as it works well in this case.

After this, is the first person that is interviewed, Billy Mitchell, it initially starts from fading out from the black and white titles, with the background noise of the interview, before going straight into the interview, when after a few seconds, his name comes in the bottom left of the screen. This is once again a technique that we would like to use, as we have seen this done by numerous documentaries, so it's definitely something we would like to add.

After Billy has done some talking, it cuts straight to the next person, Steve Wiebe, who once again starts talking before his name comes in, this establishes him as one of the main people in the film, as the opening scene immediately shows these two people.

 After this is a quote from William S Burroughs, saying

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

This is a somewhat relevant quote, although it was not intended for this context, it did fit in nicely, we will possibly do something like this, but in a more humerous way, to fit with the rest of our genre. As this quote comes in, so does some simple western sounding music, as if to imply there is a battle going on.

As the next interviewee starts talking, the music cuts off as he talks more about games, he is not named at this point, possibly to keep the focus on Mitchell and Wiebe.

After this part, it then cuts to a shot of the insides of an arcade machine, with the names of the producers, as the music starts up again. I quite like this, as it shows more titles and it breaks up the interviews a bit, I have some possible ideas on how to emulate this in our own way.

The music then goes on to the next interviewee, as we hear more about video games, he is also not named at this point, before it cuts to another relevant shot, this time of an arcade machine's buttons, with another title over it.

After this, it cuts to a shot of another person, this time he is named (As the World's Video Game Referee) this shows his relevance to the documentary and a short backstory, as he is talking, the music fades out subtle.

It then cuts to another clip of Billy Mitchell, as he talks about an analogy about being the greatest, after this, it cuts to black very briefly and the title of the film comes in, on top of an arcade machine, a simple title.