Current trends in film and television production styles have favoured the use of
aesthetics associated with prosumer and social media products. These aesthetics,
including handheld shaky-cam, variable audio and open acknowledgement of the
camera, have been utilised for their ability to imitate reality, to take away a little of
the polish of professional film and television production and to inject the raw, ad hoc
immediacy of actuality.

Realistic fiction is a genre consisting of stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting. These stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within these stories react similarly to real people. Stories that are classified as realistic fiction have plots that highlight social or personal events or issues that mirror contemporary life, such as falling in love, marriage, finding a job, divorce, alcoholism, etc. They depict our world and our society.