The Style of Film

My film's plot revolves around the group creating a documentary, so the found footage format was always a certainty. I did originally plan to have some conventional film shots within the piece, but the more I thought about it, the more I doubted the idea. First of all, I don't have the equipment to film scenes of a quality so much better than the found footage shots that they would be distinguishable from each other, which could lead to confusing the audience. Also, the point of a found footage film is to strip it of it's cinematic aesthetic and a lot of the horror is the reality, which my idea of adding conventional scenes would nullify.

The slasher genre is usually filmed conventionally as the deaths are the integral part of the film, and they need to be filmed. However, there are found footage films that also have extreme violence on camera, especially the first ones, Cannibal corpse and Man Bites Dog. They both depict extreme violence and death on camera to suggest the sub-genre also has the convention of violence on screen.