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* ''Film/Apollo18''

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* ''Film/Apollo18''''Film/{{Apollo 18|2011}}''
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* ''Film/ProjectX''

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* ''Film/ProjectX''''Film/ProjectX2012''
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The subgenre saw a resurgence in popularity starting at the end of the TurnOfTheMillennium within the {{horror}} genre thanks to the success of ''Film/ParanormalActivity'', along with the decreasing cost and increasing availability of digital cameras. Other recent, non-horror films utilizing the format include ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'', ''Film/ProjectX'' and ''Film/BestNightEver'', as well as the TV series ''Series/TheRiver''.

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The subgenre saw a resurgence in popularity starting at the end of the TurnOfTheMillennium within the {{horror}} genre thanks to the success of ''Film/ParanormalActivity'', along with the decreasing cost and increasing availability of digital cameras. Other recent, non-horror films utilizing the format include ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'', ''Film/ProjectX'' ''Film/ProjectX2012'' and ''Film/BestNightEver'', as well as the TV series ''Series/TheRiver''.
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* ''Film/LateNightWithTheDevil''
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* ''Film/{{Frogman}}''
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* ''Film/{{Exists}}''
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* ''Film/HorrorInTheHighDesert''
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* ''Film/TheTunnel''
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* ''Film/{{LOLA|2022}}''

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* ''WebVideo/ClearLakes44'' - although the in-story source of the footage is unclear, as it explicitly does things no "camera" should be able to.

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* ''WebVideo/ClearLakes44'' - -- although the in-story source of the footage is unclear, as it explicitly does things no "camera" should be able to.



* ''WebVideo/TheJokerBlogs'' - mostly the first season, much less so in the second.

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* ''WebVideo/TheJokerBlogs'' - -- mostly the first season, much less so in the second.


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* ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'': '[[ShowWithinAShow What Is This?]]' from Episode 564, "Scary Movies" features a SurferDude named Brick vlogging his journey to find Stampy.
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* "VideoGame/{{Unrecord}}" is an unusual variation, being a FirstPersonShooter played from the perspective of a police officer's bodycam, instead of through the eyes of the officer. It even includes the blurring of faces of suspects whom didn't go to trial yet and other similar effects.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Jisatsu}}'' has an intern going into an abandoned house and finding video tapes of what had happened to its owners.
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** "WesternAnimation/PrehystericalHare" has Bugs discovering a reel of movie film from prehistoric days. It focuses on Elmer Fuddstone and his hunt for the sabertooth rabbit.

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** "WesternAnimation/PrehystericalHare" has Bugs discovering a reel of movie film from prehistoric days.the year 10,000 B.C. It focuses on Elmer Fuddstone and his hunt for the sabertooth rabbit.
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** "Prehysterical Hare" has Bugs discovering a reel of movie film from prehistoric days. It focuses on Elmer Fuddstone and his hunt for the sabertooth rabbit.

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** "Prehysterical Hare" "WesternAnimation/PrehystericalHare" has Bugs discovering a reel of movie film from prehistoric days. It focuses on Elmer Fuddstone and his hunt for the sabertooth rabbit.

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This is a movie genre. The literary counterpart falls under Scrapbook Story or Apocalyptic Log.


A large number of films using this approach tend to be horror movies; the approach lends itself nicely to low-budget film-making and it positions the audience right in the center of creepy and terrifying events. The concept [[TropeCodifier became a sensation]] after ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', [[OlderThanTheyThink though it]] [[UrExample goes back to]] ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' in TheSeventies, at least as a technique of film. In other mediums it goes back at least to the [[OlderThanTheyThink early 20th century]]. The majority of Creator/HPLovecraft's works were presented as [[ScrapbookStory found manuscripts]], reports, or other such things made to look like an actual first-hand account with the untold horrors. ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' was written in this style, the story being told through a number of diaries and newspaper articles giving the appearance that Bram Stoker had collected them to document the story.

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A large number of films using this approach tend to be horror movies; the approach lends itself nicely to low-budget film-making and it positions the audience right in the center of creepy and terrifying events. The concept [[TropeCodifier became a sensation]] after ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', [[OlderThanTheyThink though it]] [[UrExample goes back to]] ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' in TheSeventies, at least as a technique of film. In other mediums it goes back at least to the [[OlderThanTheyThink early 20th century]]. The majority of Creator/HPLovecraft's works were presented as [[ScrapbookStory found manuscripts]], reports, or other such things made to look like an actual first-hand account with the untold horrors. ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' was written in this style, the story being told through a number of diaries and newspaper articles giving the appearance that Bram Stoker had collected them to document the story.



Compare {{Mockumentary}}, BasedOnATrueStory, VlogSeries. See also ApocalypticLog, which lends itself nicely to this style of filmmaking. AnalogHorror also falls in a similar vein. The text equivalent is ScrapbookStory. The term "found footage" can also refer to footage that is re-appropriated (that is to say, treated as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object found object]]), and consequently "found footage film" can also refer to a video collage.

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Compare {{Mockumentary}}, BasedOnATrueStory, VlogSeries. See also ApocalypticLog, which lends itself nicely to this style of filmmaking. AnalogHorror also falls in a similar vein. The text literary equivalent is the ScrapbookStory. The term "found footage" can also refer to footage that is re-appropriated (that is to say, treated as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object found object]]), and consequently "found footage film" can also refer to a video collage.



* ''Literature/Dracula'' is a collection of journals, letters, phonograph recording transcripts, and newspaper clippings.
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->''"Every frame of [[Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate this movie]] looks like someone's last known photograph."''

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* ''Literature/Dracula'' is a collection of journals, letters, phonograph recording transcripts, and newspaper clippings.
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* ''Film/VampireDiary''
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** ''Film/HellHouseLLCOriginsTheCarmichaelManor''
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* ''Film/{{Host}}'' exclusively uses footage from a Zoom meeting.
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** ''[[Film/VHS85 V/H/S/85]]''

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* ''WebVideo/The15Experience'' (a found-footage short film presented as an online experience)



* ''WebVideo/TheFifteenExperience'' (a found-footage short film presented as an online experience)
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* ''VideoGame/BlackSnow'' – the game's entire story is what [[PlayerCharacter Jon Matsuda]]'s camera recorded before "you" find it.

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* ''VideoGame/BlackSnow'' – ''VideoGame/BlackSnowHalfLife2'': the game's entire story is what [[PlayerCharacter Jon Matsuda]]'s Matsuda's camera recorded before "you" find it.
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* ''Film/OpenWindows''

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