By Zaid at Monday, May 05, 2014 8:54:00 AM





If you scroll down, you'll get to see a teaser trailer for what appears to be a new chapter in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto franchise . The first thing you'll notice is that the graphics are amazing and that the locales might look familiar to some of you. Is this new teaser trailer hinting that Rockstar is setting the Grand Theft Auto in the home of the Union Buildings, Pretoria? Or is it more likely just a humourous rif on the crime situation over here? Sadly, it's neither of those.





Instead the two minute short is a collision of video gaming with real-life in the form of a trailer for a documentary about the work of private security guards. The short frames it's action with the motifs of uber video game franchise Grand Theft Auto and tells the true life story of Pretoria security guards. Called Carjack City , the documentary is produced by the UK's Channel 4 as part of their Unreported Worlds series and traces the travails of security guards Aaron Kekae and Andries Hlongwane during a 12-hour nighttime shift.









The trailer opens with title ripping off the Grand Theft Auto logo and showing off profile pics of the documentary's subjects using the series signature boxart art style. It progresses to a 'start screen' and a 'mission screen' before a series of jump cuts promoting the documentary. The short closes with a 'mission complete' screen showing how much Andries Hlongwane earned for the night. So after dealing with carjackings, shootouts, robberies and basically putting his life in harms way, how much did Hlongwane make? A mere R265, just for your information.





On the one hand, I have to say I'm kind of impressed at how accomplished the mimicry of Grand Theft Auto is with this trailer and it does make me wonder if it will extend into the full documentary, which would be kind of cool. But then on the other hand I really wish there wasn't a topic for this documentary to cover.





We get enough bad press for our crime situation over here - Oscar, anyone? - we really don't need anymore. But I suppose there's no point trying to bury our heads in the sand.





You can find out more on Channel 4's website





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