1. Realist's use the footage to validate their arguments or points in a more literal sense by the images usually following the soundtrack while figurative use of found footage consists of montages used to create new ideas or meanings via juxtapositions of images. Tribulation 99 uses figurative found footage techniques that relate to American history.

2. Low budget equipment and whatnot. Both scenes believe in learning from experience of just picking some technology up and playing around with it. Both scenes denied conventional beliefs.

3. Medium specificity, concept of autonomy of art, smooth handheld camera movement, "high art" over pop-culture, and the imperative to simultaneously reflect universality and individual sensibility through innovative and unique works.

4. Camera work wasn't smooth.

5. She shoots non-professionals in their natural states/living conditions and uses super 8 film to do so.

6. Mainstream porn focuses on the male getting off. In The Color of Love the male isn't even hard so the possibility of him getting off is negated by his flaccid penis. Instead of everything focused around the dude reaching a climax, The Color of Love doesn't even give a shit about the dude getting satisfaction.

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