Forms and Conventions‘Catfish’

Laura Cuk

CATFISH

O Format: Film

O Catfish is about young filmmakers documenting

their colleague's budding online friendship with a

young woman and her family which leads to an

unexpected series of discoveries.

Forms and conventions

Handheld camera movement

This form establishes a sense of realism.

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Credits

This is used on screen to identify people's names/roles.

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Archival footage Archival still photographs

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Background music

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Sound bridging/Voice over

This when voice over continues over cutaways/footage so it's

not just looking at someone talk to camera for too long