Shooting the Musical is a mocumentary film by one of the directors for "Taking My Parents to Burning Man", Joel Ashton McCarthy. It has many layers of artful subtlety and my wife and I enjoyed it.
It has the following layers:
-Film student doing a documentary on what other fellow students have done in the year since they graduated.
-Emotional and successful film student graduate commits suicide, by sleeping pills, and says that his script about a high school shooting from the point of view of the shooter should never be filmed and should act as his suicide note.
-Roommate of the emotional film student discovers script and erases video suicide note. Gathers everyone from the same class of film school graduates to get his roomates film made. Changes the script to make it a musical.
-While using duplicity to film at the only school that will allow them on their property, a religious school, they have to also film a religious film to fool the principal priest.
-Romance develops between the roommate and the dead graduate's girlfriend.
There are more little layers besides. Here is the trailer. I was impressed by the talented storytelling and method used to tell all these stories and wrap it up nicely, while using humour to convey many delicate messages.
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