'This Is Spinal Tap' is a American Mockumentary style documentary which was released in 1984. The documentary follows an American rock band on a come-back tour, giving an inside look on the personalities of the characters and the bands lifestyle from day to day. Christopher Guest uses a range of techniques in order to successfully achieve his Mockumentary such as handheld camera, faux interviews, archival footage, montages, narration and many others. In a similar way to Christopher Guests 'Best In Show' Mockumentary, Guest captures the band in a way which makes the characters seem so real, some people thought they were in fact a real band. Rather then writing scripts, Guest instead had the show be filmed unscripted and made his characters improvise, giving the mockumentary a much more relaxed, realistic feel.
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