You'll always have a suspension of disbelief problem when shit is blowing up, or people are getting murdered and someone is still holding a camera, so make it a good reason, or lose the trope. Our main characters have something to prove by hanging onto the camera. You have to decide whether the found footage is from 1 camera or several (security cameras etc) and why the hell it needs to be there in the first place.
I've read some bad found footage scripts. That it's integral to the fucking story, as opposed to just a gimmicky fad.
#Arrsync writing over footage movie
My suggest would be: Make sure the movie HAS to be found footage. I am a former reader for a small horror production company that did movies like Sinister and Paranormal Activity. In the script would it better to write the dialogue in their language, or just write it in English and put In French before it? I'm still working out the specifics, but I believe the concept itself is pretty strong and would be a very interesting script to write.Īlso, a good portion of many of the characters will be speaking a foreign language some of the time. With only the flashlights they brought and stuck in a gigantic underground labyrinth with no way out and no way to contact anyone outside, they try to find their way out while battling their developing paranoia. The basic for this concept is an American film crew goes to the Catacombs of Paris to shoot a horror film, but get lost when they go beyond where they were supposed to and end up losing power after one of their power cables gets cut. What "found footage" cliches to avoid in general.
#Arrsync writing over footage how to
How to get good scares and suspense without resorting to cheesy jumps and standard horror cliches. How to make it believable that people would keep recording in dangerous situations. How to write dialog script-wise to reflect how people actually talk (constant interruptions, many people talking at once and finishing each others sentences). The big things I was hoping to get advice on are: It can be extremely cheesy and convoluted if done wrong, but horrifying and engrossing if done right. It's such a delicate genre, and there's a big difference between the good (VHS, Troll Hunter, and the Rec series) and the bad (Megan is Missing, The Devil Inside, every Paranormal Activity after 1). So I'm writing a found footage horror film (mostly for practice, no real plans to make it) and was hoping to get some advice.
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