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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 4792790" data-attributes="member: 2572">The problem is not that 3rd person needs to be mentioned, it is that using shaky cam is like going from 3rd person to 1st person then back to 3rd person. In a book I would find it confusing if the narrative kept jumping between 1st and 3rd person without a justification. Its not that it can't be done, but when it is, it is mostly by stating some means like a diary entry or 3rd person omniscient stating that this is what is going on inside some person's head.  Blair Witch and Cloverfield were the equivalent of 1st person throughout, while Aliens used the justification of helmet cams to show 1st person action in an otherwise 3rd person omniscient perspective. If a movie or a book wants to do a 2nd person observer perspective that is fine as well, but I would not want that 2nd person observer perspective to get muddled with a 3rd person perspective without some justification or demonstration of that 2nd person in the 3rd person view.</blockquote>