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post possible explanations for why people are still keeping the cameras running in a found footage movie
BattroidBattery
you're going to sue so many people when this is over and you need the evidence
EsperBot
They’re professional photojournalists, they’re not going to NOT film this
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shit's gonna go viral if they survive
Doge-lover Joja
they forgot how
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
for the vine
EsperBot
(That is in fact the explanation in [•REC]. And when shit gets fucked to the point where that starts feeling thin, all the lights go out and they need to use the camera’s night vision to navigate)
pastel ranma
No one is going to believe this shit if they don't keep filming, and oftentimes in this movie the easiest explanation would be that the person who survived was responsible for the deaths/injuries/whatever.
izzy.vrm
for the bit
Dead Mentors
entire found footage movie is actually a home movie performance put together by ghosts because being dead is really boring and they need to do something to keep themselves entertained
chupAAKabra
button stuck : (
dragon time
We had the camera running? What the fuck.
Princess Emily
the ghosts took the camera
oh i'm scary
the characters are being followed by a documentary crew who are not actually part of the story, a la WWDITS
Niamh Vibes
This takes place on a world where people are person/camera hybrids, it just didn't come up in the script
oh i'm scary
it starts at a wedding and the person holding the camera spends the entire movie just a little uncertain if the wedding is "off" in the sense that they're not expected to keep recording, and everybody is too busy to ask
oh i'm scary
they have anxiety
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
your insurance demands frankly horrible levels of proof
HOT TURKEY TAKE
Pretty sure the hellraiser movies have a cenobite that is just a camerahead, he follows around all found footage photographers to make sure they record until the instant they die (or he'll kill them)
Medic▲l Mir▲cle
they're home movie weirdos
RobotApocalypse
accidentally superglued their hands to the camera and don't want to admit it
Lightning Bolt
secretly this whole film is an advertisement for the recording quality, durability, and long battery life of the camera
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I think as a prereq to liking a found footage movie I have two requirements
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one per word in the genre name
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footage: it has to consistently be coming from cameras that exist in-universe
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found: actually I changed my mind this one is less important
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but it helps if it makes an ounce of sense that the footage was found
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I swerved on that at the last second because of that one bit in VHS Beyond