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Originally Posted by Ferox13
...especially Safe Haven. If this was 'found footage' who edited all the camera feeds together. Didn't make sense. And if I remember correctly, Safe Haven had some POV shots that weren't thru a camera (I could be wrong on this though). Any way when your whole framing device is based around this, it really takes you out of it when you break your own rules.
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Each of the documentary crew members was wearing a shirt button spy cam, so we got POV from each of them.
I agree though, I often wonder in found footage films -- Who gathered all this footage and edited it? And if someone went to that trouble, why did they leave in all the white noise and exaggeratedly choppy cuts?
I typically just consider it a necessary leap of faith in order to enjoy the film -- either it's explained who and why, like in Blair Witch, or it's not explained, and in that case sometimes I just think of it in terms of a bunch of loose footage that *exists*, but wasn't necessarily ever gathered and edited together. I know that doesn't exactly fit the overarching story in the V/H/S films (discovering a bunch of evil video tapes and watching them), but then again, who uses VHS anymore anyway? Like in the first film, one segment was entirely Skype video calls. Did someone actually transfer that to a VHS tape? Doubtful. So basically, I'm forgiving of that type of stuff in the found footage subgenre because it often just seems necessary.