Call such a context a fictional context.
Fictional accounts were often set in remote historical settings, the use of contemporary settings in fiction being a relatively recent phenomenon.
But instead of documenting what he saw, he decided to collaborate with Nigerian actors, models, and a makeup artist, using props, film sets, or natural settings to create a series of fictional portraits.
Non-fiction writers may want to begin to write that long-delayed fictional novel whose characters and settings have been rolling around in the back of their heads.
Traditional work in this area has focussed on fictional stories told in laboratory settings, but Nyhan believes that looking at real debates is the best way to learn how persistently incorrect views of the world can be corrected.
While sites in Dubrovnik, Morocco and Malta have been used as backdrops for the more exotic exterior scenes, a large number of locations in the region double as settings in Westeros, the fictional continent in which the action-fantasy is set.
