I've been dreaming of a modern film shot entirely from a first person POV, but from the trailer, I don't think this one is the film I was hoping for. This is just Call of Duty and goofiness, like an extended FreddieW or Corridor Digital video.

First-person POV has become part of the modern human's visual vocabulary in a new way. Twenty years ago a large part of the audience would probably find such a shot overly disorienting. You'd have a lot of people complaining it gave them motion sickness or that they just couldn't tell what was happening. Or I imagine really stupid people would say "that's so CHEAP you can't even see Spider-Man!"

But these days with hundreds of millions of phone cameras, and people growing up playing first-person videogames, the first-person point-of-view has become instantly readable to a large part of the audience (and it's not like everyone needs training to "get" such shots... just the common miscreants). Blair Witch, Cloverfield etc. were an introduction but not true POV movies. I can't wait for the first all-POV movie.

Well.. put yer dukes up and give me a counterpoint to attack.

>> ^marinara:

>> ^budzos:
It's not directly inspired by Mirror's Edge. And it's not coincidence so much as the natural course of things. Get used to more and more first-person POV in movies.

see, its statements like this that get me into fights on the internet

>> ^budzos:

It's not directly inspired by Mirror's Edge. And it's not coincidence so much as the natural course of things. Get used to more and more first-person POV in movies.


see, its statements like this that get me into fights on the internet

Will the first person POV even be in the movie or was it just for the trailer? Beyond this and Doom are there any other real cases of first person POV in movies though?

>> ^budzos:

It's not directly inspired by Mirror's Edge. And it's not coincidence so much as the natural course of things. Get used to more and more first-person POV in movies.

It's not directly inspired by Mirror's Edge. And it's not coincidence so much as the natural course of things. Get used to more and more first-person POV in movies.