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rearranging-deck-chairs · 1 year ago

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the inherent fourth wall breaking of found footage stories not in the sense that the characters are leaving the fiction or able to look outside of it, but in the other direction that the audience becomes part of the fiction

#thinking of doug eiffel logs that we listen to that have the in-universe purpose to keep the main antagonist updated on their situation #thinking about characters in the bright sessions finding out and being upset about their sessions being recorded #the very recordings that are our only way in to the story #thinking of the hard-to-pin-down-at-first identity and purpose of the microphone in ars paradoxica #so omnipresent that you might not even register it as found footage at first #only to find out way way later on the whole town is bugged #(i think that was the reason? been a while)#thinking about the camera in carmilla that sometimes seems to have a will of its own and just Turns On when theres smth interesting happeni #the nature of being a character means you Are Being Watched #you only exist to be watched and when you are being watched #but sometimes #you can reach out and touch not the watcher per se but the medium #and you can look back #you can take control #you can unbug the house #turn off the camera #use it against the watcher #who is fucking up your life #because often that is what theyre doing #the in-universe watcher #it's almost impossible not to feel implicated as an audience member #and you are being cut off too #from the story #when the character fights against the watching of the antagonsit #when the character deceives the antagonist #you are also being deceived #like what they say abt hera when pryce is on board like. shes compromised. assume everything hera knows pryce knows. so you cant tell her #anyway

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