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* ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp''

* ''SurfsUp''

An InUniverseCamera, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the name suggests]], is actually present in the "world" of the story: Characters may notice and talk to it, it may get bumped or shaken by the environment, and may even be seen in a reflection. This frequently makes it a target for CameraAbuse, and works rather well with a JitterCam.

* ''Film/ParanormalActivity'', its sequel, and the straight-to-video Asylum ripoff, ''Paranormal Entity''.

* ''{{Rent}}'' uses this as a framing device, complete with its camera man, Mark Cohen.

* ''{{lonelygirl15}}''
* ''{{KateModern}}'' loves this, as characters frequently kick or drop the camera.

* ''Literature/Hyouka'' provides an in-universe example as Oreki's solution to a LockedRoomMystery presented in a student film. [[spoiler:Though he was actually wrong.]]

* Sometimes invoked in ''{{Birdz}}'', what with lead character Eddie sometimes filming his family in his aspirations to become a filmmaker.

* The basic mechanic of {{Suda 51}}'s ''VideoGame/{{Michigan}}'' is that the player is a cameraman, attempting to film the events that unfold. The story progresses differently depending on what the player films.

* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' is on the fence. While it's never explicitly stated to be a mockumentary, the camera acts like it's a person carrying a camera- it jumps, shudders, looks through keyholes and under doors. It also gets thrown out of a court in accordance with rules banning televised trials. So while it doesn't say so, it does this quite a lot. However, if this trope is actually in effect, some serious FrideLogic ensues about just how personal the Bluths are willing to get in this "documentary."

* YuYuHakusho is revealed to be composed of the case footage from Yusuke's time as a spirit detective. Considering some of the things we're shown throughout the series, including internal monologues, flashbacks, everyone's life before Yusuke even died, musical scores, and multiple camera angles, this footage must have been put through a ''lot'' of pre- and post-production.

* There's a scene in ''Film/TheTallBlondManWithOneBlackShoe'' where the title character, an innocuous concert violinist, is identified as a spy in an airport. He walks through the concourse, putting a big piece of sticky candy in his mouth, and every few seconds the frame freezes, as various spies take his picture...always catching him with an awkward twisted expression as the candy gets stuck in his teeth.

* Although the point of a vlog is to address the audience through the camera, {{Tobuscus}} takes it a step further by addressing the camera ''as'' the audience and introing every entry by asking the audience what they are doing in whatever ridiculous place he chooses.

* There's a scene in ''TheTallBlondManWithOneBlackShoe'' where the title character, an innocuous concert violinist, is identified as a spy in an airport. He walks through the concourse, putting a big piece of sticky candy in his mouth, and every few seconds the frame freezes, as various spies take his picture...always catching him with an awkward twisted expression as the candy gets stuck in his teeth.

* The "Why Are You Here?" episode of ''The Hitchhiker'' centers around the filming of an episode of the in-universe show "Nighthawks" (''also'' called "Why Are You Here?"). The only time we ''don't'' see the camera's perspective is at the end, with the Hitchhiker giving the ending remarks.

When the camera is meant to represent the "eyes" of a character, it's a POVCam.

* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'': The camera is an actual robot, "Cambot", and we see the show through his perspective. We only see him in the opening "Robot Roll Call", and he's actually looking into a mirror to show himself. That's why his name is backwards. There's also the external camera, Rocket Number Nine, which is basically its own satellite which is remote-controlled by Cambot.

* The "Why Are You Here?" episode of ''The Hitchhiker'' centers around the filming of an episode of the in-universe show "Nighthawks" (''also'' called "Why Are You Here?). The only time we ''don't'' see the camera's perspective is at the end, with the Hitchhiker giving the ending remarks.

* EchoChamber

* The episode "Wild Cards" of ''JusticeLeague'', where the Joker set these up all over Las Vegas--along with twenty-six bombs. They played it pretty loose just to keep things going, though.

* ''{{Halo}}: Combat Evolved'' has a scene shot from the perspective of a soldier's helmet camera, when they discover the Flood.

* The ''OuterLimits'' episode "Manifest Destiny" was filmed almost entirely from this point of view.
* The ''{{Sanctuary}}'' episode "Instinct": The first-person camera is held by the cameraman of the reporter who gets tangled up with the Sanctuary team while they're pursuing a giant insect.

* ''StarTrek'''s two-part episode "The Menagerie" uses footage shot for the original pilot, "The Cage", as evidence in Spock's trial. Kirk wants to know the origin, since "No ship makes record tapes in such detail." Commodore Mendez later comments that "this is a trial, not a theater."

** Deep 13's cameras were remote controlled in Season One, with the respective sound effects. By the next season, they were operated by Jerry and Sylvia, the Mads' mole men neighbors.