Found footage film

A film presented as discovered recordings, often using handheld or imperfect images to suggest that participants captured its events rather than a conventional camera crew.

Diegetic camera: A camera that exists within a story world and can be seen or handled by characters. The camera's presence explains who records the footage and why it exists.
Cannibal Holocaust: A 1980 Italian horror film about a missing documentary crew in the Amazon rainforest. Its fictional documentary footage helped shape later found footage horror.
Direct cinema: A documentary movement that sought to observe events with minimal intervention, especially in the 1960s. Its observational camera style offered a model for apparently unmediated fictional footage.
Horror film: A film genre designed to evoke fear, dread, or shock through its subject matter and techniques. Found footage is especially associated with horror because limited evidence sustains uncertainty.
Suspension of disbelief: A viewer's temporary acceptance of a fictional work's premises while engaging with its story. Plausible recording circumstances help audiences accept implausible events as captured evidence.
Handheld camera: A camera operated by hand rather than fixed to a support or mount. Unsteady movement helps footage resemble recordings made during events.
The Blair Witch Project: A 1999 horror film presented as footage shot by student filmmakers who disappear in a forest. Its low-budget production and promotional campaign made the format widely visible.
Cinéma vérité: A documentary approach that uses filming and editing to expose how reality is represented. Its self-conscious recording practices complicate the boundary between evidence and performance.
Documentary film: A nonfiction film that represents actual people, events, or conditions. Found footage borrows documentary authority while applying it to fictional events.
Cinematic realism: A set of film techniques and ideals that make screen events seem lifelike or credible. The format makes realism depend on apparent recording conditions as well as image content.

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