FTV10006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Collage Film, Mockumentary, Shaky Camera
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Origins of portability: films which employ material shot by someone else for another reason, more traditionally, its fart of a fictional premise, where pre-existing footage" is fashioned in a narrative. The online portal: technology has shaped the way we access, engage with and structure film and television as a online experience, as a cultural force, youtube has an impact on other visual media, like cinema. The role of handheld catastrophe: calamity is increasingly mediated through a rough, handheld aesthetic taken by bystanders with phones or handicams, emphasis on the accidental nature of the image, the image is unconstructed, becomes actual and live", unedited. Image is raw, may lose focus, frames are loose, may drift. 9/11 and the found footage phenomena: crystallised the connected between the handheld camera and great calamity, rough camera work, we lose trust in the image because of the amateur nature of the production.
