In that entire sweeping era of 2000's found footage, I think there are two projects that actually nailed the cinematic language by actually treating it as the reality of "people being filmed." The Office UK. And Chronicle. Maybe another?
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Replying to @mchllcy
(It does it horribly. Cheats constantly. Half the time acts like a TV show / gets impossible shots. Then characters pretend they know they're being filmed for a given joke. But UK never cheated)
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It constantly pretends the camera is both there and not there. We'll see two people talking, it will cut in close like a shoe swinging or something and 1. it's like "why did the camera person go in and get that shot? that's a movie shot not a documentary shot" and then
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2. It will swing back out to show that same space in real time and the person who would have got that shot, won't be there. This isn't a problem in real "god's eye" cinematography. But with a mockumentary, it very much is I argue.
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Because you're constantly undermining your cinematic language / reality for a cheating momentary effect. I never know what's "real."
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @mchllcy
Well shit. I guess I will *have* to watch the series for the eleventy fourth time to catch these shots.
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haha, don't get me wrong. There's so much great writing in acting in that dang show. It's just an aesthetic thing!
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