FOUND FOOTAGE BLOG
To summarize the article:
- Found Footage often gets a bad rap
- Peter Watkins' 1971 mock-doc Punishment Park is the origin of FF
- The Blair Witch Project is the main legacy -> (Cost 35k, made 250 Million)
((Chronicle is in a smiliar situation))
- Found Footage is extremely versatile
- It's easy to film because of the fact that everything happens "live"
- It CAN be done wrong
My thoughts: I quite like the found footage genre. It's produced fun movies like Chronicle and Cloverfield and quite frankly when it works, it works. However, there is something that needs to be pointed out. The idea of found footage, in the movie itself, needs to make sense. A movie shouldn't use this style of filming just because it wants a lowered budget and a way to mask crappy special effects or camera tricks. It also shouldn't be SO "found footagey" (admittedly, like some parts of Cloverfield) that you cannot focus on anything that's happening. Instead, it should be plausible that for whatever reason, a character in the movie would have the means, purpose, and camera type, to be recording at all. Those are just my thoughts: What do you guys think?
- It CAN be done wrong
My thoughts: I quite like the found footage genre. It's produced fun movies like Chronicle and Cloverfield and quite frankly when it works, it works. However, there is something that needs to be pointed out. The idea of found footage, in the movie itself, needs to make sense. A movie shouldn't use this style of filming just because it wants a lowered budget and a way to mask crappy special effects or camera tricks. It also shouldn't be SO "found footagey" (admittedly, like some parts of Cloverfield) that you cannot focus on anything that's happening. Instead, it should be plausible that for whatever reason, a character in the movie would have the means, purpose, and camera type, to be recording at all. Those are just my thoughts: What do you guys think?
I used this method in my second project "The Averagers". This can be an effective method of filming, and it can definitely be an effective use of filming. I personally like this style, though it can over used or used incorrectly. Cloverfield was an effective use of this style. It gives the movie a 'Point of View' style look. Doom has also used this style and I particularly loved it. Action movies are a very good choice for this kind of filming.
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