screenlife
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Screenlife or computer screen film is a form of visual storytelling in which events are shown entirely on a computer, tablet, or smartphone screen. It became popular in the 2010s owing to the growing impact of the Internet and mobile devices. Within a video essay, the format is often called desktop documentary.
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- film
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- found footage film
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- screencast
- partially coincident with
- pseudo-documentary
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- Self-imposed limitations
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- Format
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Screenlife or computer screen film is a form of visual storytelling in which events are shown entirely on a computer, tablet, or smartphone screen. It became popular in the 2010s owing to the growing impact of the Internet and mobile devices. Within a video essay, the format is often called desktop documentary.
==Self-imposed limitations== According to Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian-Kazakh producer of the film Searching, a computer screen film should take place on one specific screen, never move outside of the screen, the camerawork should resemble the behavior of the device's camera, all the action should take place in real time, without any visible transitions and all the sounds should originate from the computer. There have, however, also been movies that switch between screens and are still categorized as screenlife.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “screenlife” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.