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== Film ==

* ''[[Cloverfield]]'', a giant-monster-eats-New-York story shown as "documentary footage" filmed by a guy with a camcorder, is eighty-five solid minutes of this.

* Used in the [[Transformers Film Series]], which is generally a staple of [[Michael Bay]]. The first film had the camera mostly at ground level, showing how big the robots are and how chaotic it would be. Later movies tone it down somewhat, as more emphasis was put on robot vs. robot rather than the military vs. the bad robots.

* The 2003 reboot of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]''. The use, at least in the space scenes, was actually called for by writer/producer Ronald D. Moore, in his manifesto on "naturalistic science-fiction." The idea was that while in conventional film-making it is important never to draw attention to the camera in order to avoid breaking [[Suspension of Disbelief]], CGI special effects shots tend to fall into a sort of [[Uncanny Valley]] effect. The CGI shots in ''Battlestar Galactica'' were therefore shot using only camera placements and techniques that theoretically could have been used if the show were, in fact a documentary.

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Love & Monsters".

* Most battle scenes in ''[[Band of Brothers]]''.

* ''[[The Office]]'', both UK and US, since it's a [[Mockumentary]]

* ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' and ''[[Kate Modern]]''.

* Parodied in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtWPW8yJtgM "Epic VFX Time"]'':

'''Freddie:''' This isn't ''[[The Bourne Series (film)|Bourne Identity!]]'' You ain't [[Matt Damon]]!, }}

* [[Bum Reviews]] used it to review ''The Hunger Games'', listed above (complete with complaining that the IMAX makes it even more nauseating).

 

== Real Life ==

 

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