Via Wiki, which is a a fairly cogent and succinct definition: "Found footage is a cinematic technique and film genre in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were film or video recordings recorded by characters in the story, and later “found” and presented to the audience. "
The movie that got the ball rolling on the modern take on the genre is 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, though older examples exist. There’s been a pretty solid stream of such films since.
Someone orders a sub sandwich via doordash and the driver leaves it outside the door in a hotel: it’s yours.
Love this
I wish, that would make my day.
A movie premise where someone finds a lost camera or footage and you get to see what happened to the original owner
Cloverfield and Apollo 18 are good examples of this
What is the implication of integrating found footage in that light? Is it usually a continuation or extrapolation on the “unfinished work”?
Think of finding a diary or old photos. You the viewer weren’t there at the time, but someone else was and this is their “eyewitness account” that you are viewing at a later date. It can presented as evidence from an investigation or found by a different party to add to back story
It’s to aid in suspension of disbelief and make it seem like someone actually filmed it in the moment, not a movie camera crew
Can you talk more about suspension of belief?
A part of the viewer knows that they’re not really in the world of a movie, that it’s all intentional storytelling. But making it seem like what you are seeing was recorded by a normal person plays into your current situation, watching a film in front of a screen as a third party
You have such a wonderful way of explaining these filmstuffs
Context?
Footage that is found
