What is "found footage*?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 16 Jun 11:39
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TabbsTheBat@pawb.social on 16 Jun 11:43 next collapse

Footage that is found

SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works on 16 Jun 11:46 next collapse

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

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 11:50 collapse

What is the implication of integrating found footage in that light? Is it usually a continuation or extrapolation on the “unfinished work”?

SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works on 16 Jun 12:02 collapse

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

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 12:04 collapse

Can you talk more about suspension of belief?

SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works on 16 Jun 12:17 collapse

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

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 12:20 collapse

You have such a wonderful way of explaining these filmstuffs

c0dezer0@programming.dev on 16 Jun 11:46 next collapse

Context?

zeppo@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 11:47 next collapse

Someone orders a sub sandwich via doordash and the driver leaves it outside the door in a hotel: it’s yours.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 11:49 next collapse

Love this

MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca on 16 Jun 12:54 collapse

I wish, that would make my day.

PNW_Doug@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 11:58 collapse

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.