[
    {
        "subGenre": "Mockumentaries",
        "scene": "Behind-the-scenes of a struggling community theatre putting on an over-ambitious historical epic (light/sardonic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Paper props labeled in felt-tip pen",
            "An actor nervously adjusting a wildly inaccurate costume",
            "A director coaching a soldier's valiant but clearly memorized cry",
            "A collapsed folding backdrop revealing a janitor's mop",
            "A program printed with misspelled cast names"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Quick reaction cuts of the cast over-explaining motivations to an unseen interviewer",
            "An earnest rehearsal interrupted by a misguided special effect that produces a comedic mess",
            "Cutaways to absurd promotional material promising 'authenticity guaranteed'",
            "Intertitle captions that contradict what interviewees are saying"
        ],
        "camera": "Documentary-style hand-held coverage combined with awkwardly placed fixed interview framings and intentionally 'found' phone footage",
        "accents": [
            "uneven practical stage light micro-bleed and costume micro-stitch inconsistency",
            "lo-fi mic rustle and a faint audience cough sound bed"
        ],
        "mood": "playful, wry, affectionate",
        "lighting": "practical stage & fluorescent backstage mixes with occasional overexposed highlight",
        "style": "mockumentary observational satire"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Mockumentaries",
        "scene": "A faux wildlife documentary following a 'rare urban raccoon with refined habits' (light/absurd)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A raccoon perched by a tiny table with a tea cup",
            "A narrator solemnly describing the raccoon's 'taste for eclectic cutlery'",
            "Zoomed macro on a raccoon's paw as though it's a delicate instrument",
            "A staged tracking camera that the raccoon clearly interacts with",
            "A habitat 'researcher' holding a clipboard and whispering conspiratorially"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Deadpan interviews with 'experts' offering ludicrously specific behavioral taxonomy",
            "Slow-motion inserts underscoring mundane raccoon behaviors as if epic",
            "On-screen scientific graphics that collapse into silly footnotes",
            "A staged rescue that intentionally misreads the animal's intentions"
        ],
        "camera": "Nature doc conventions exaggerated: long telephoto sim, cinematic slow-mo, and mock-serious macro inserts",
        "accents": [
            "fur micro-detail with comically over-graded color and exaggerated telephoto compression",
            "fake stat overlay micro-typography and affectless narration tone"
        ],
        "mood": "irreverent, deadpan, whimsical",
        "lighting": "naturalistic golden-hour emulation with playfully cinematic grading",
        "style": "satirical nature documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Mockumentaries",
        "scene": "A startup pitch doc where founders earnestly explain an obviously useless product to investors (light/biting)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A glass-walled meeting room with smug post-it-note charts",
            "Overconfident prototypes that wobble and spark",
            "A whiteboard drawing devolving into incomprehensible acronyms",
            "An investor nodding politely while checking their watch",
            "A press kit filled with jargon-heavy one-liners"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Founder uses sweeping hand gestures and invented metrics to sell the product",
            "Cutaways to user testimonials that are obviously scripted and absurd",
            "A demo fails spectacularly, followed by a forced laugh and pivot talk",
            "On-screen lower-thirds show inflated titles like 'Chief Visionary Officer'"
        ],
        "camera": "Clean corporate-style B-roll juxtaposed with handheld 'authentic' testimonial inserts and awkward cut-in close-ups",
        "accents": [
            "plastic prototype micro-scratch and coffee-cup micro-ring on the table",
            "powdered enthusiasm in voiceover micro-intonation"
        ],
        "mood": "satirical, cringe, gleefully critical",
        "lighting": "bright corporate practicals with occasional cold tungsten to puncture optimism",
        "style": "mock-expository tech startup documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Mockumentaries",
        "scene": "Local council 'truth and reconciliation' meeting that is increasingly petty and performative (dark/comic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A municipal meeting room with a single flag and a stale coffee urn",
            "Citizens using formal language for personal grievances",
            "A slide deck with bullet points devolving into passive-aggressive memes",
            "A gavel tapped to reassert authority over trivial disputes",
            "An earnest volunteer handing out flyers for a cause that nobody follows"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Close interviews reveal wildly different recollections of the same small incident",
            "Assembly members perform ritual apologies that avoid responsibility",
            "Cutaways to archived 'minutes' that read like a tragicomedy",
            "A final board vote decided by a single petulant abstention"
        ],
        "camera": "Static institutional coverage with awkwardly framed talking heads and intentionally stale cutaway B-roll",
        "accents": [
            "paper micro-curl on agenda pages and microphone micro-pop when speakers change",
            "low-level room hum micro-noise and fluorescent micro-flicker"
        ],
        "mood": "dry, ironic, mildly uncomfortable",
        "lighting": "flat institutional fluorescents with occasional warm practicals during personal moments",
        "style": "satirical civic mockumentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Mockumentaries",
        "scene": "A faux cult documentary exploring the rise of an innocuous neighborhood fad treated as a sweeping social movement (light/absurd)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Members wearing matching but clearly homemade insignia",
            "Merchandise stalls selling intentionally useless tokens",
            "A slow-motion montage of followers performing a silly ritual",
            "A founder interviewed with an exaggerated origin myth",
            "A timeline graphic that compresses months into 'eras' with pompous titles"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Intercut interviews with an escalating sense of earnestness and absurd commitment",
            "Archival-style footage staged to look older and more significant than it is",
            "A staged scandal that parodies cult controversies but over trivial details",
            "Final tongue-in-cheek montage showing the fad's decline into harmless nostalgia"
        ],
        "camera": "Hybrid archival emulation with modern interview rigs and intentionally inconsistent aspect ratios to imply document age",
        "accents": [
            "home-printed badge micro-fiber and staged 'aged' film grain micro-scratch",
            "overly sincere music cue micro-swell"
        ],
        "mood": "satirical, absurd, affectionate",
        "lighting": "variable—archival warm sepia for flashbacks and honest daylight for present interviews",
        "style": "playful cultural mockumentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Mockumentaries",
        "scene": "A mock 'lost' instructional film dramatizing simple household tasks as high drama (light/parodic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A 16mm instructional card instructing 'how to fold a fitted sheet' as if a life-or-death skill",
            "A narrator building suspense over banal steps",
            "Close-ups on hands with exaggerated importance",
            "A dramatic reenactment with overly intense actors",
            "Title cards with faux-authoritative citations"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Deadpan step-by-step sequences treated with cinematic gravity",
            "Cutaways to faux-experts citing irrelevant 'research' for comedic effect",
            "Slow crossfades exaggerate the transition between each mundane step",
            "An escalating montaged score that makes the task feel epic"
        ],
        "camera": "Intentionally reverent framing and slow push-ins to amplify banality into drama",
        "accents": [
            "16mm film grain micro-scratch and instructional card micro-paper texture",
            "excessive reverb on narration micro-tone"
        ],
        "mood": "parodic, deadpan, affectionate",
        "lighting": "studio-key dramatic lighting applied to everyday objects",
        "style": "parodic instructional mockumentary"
    }
]