Whose perspective is The Office filmed from?

It’s supposed to be a documentary style.

I thought they were filming a documentary.

Yeah it’s not a character it’s as if a film crew was making a documentary about the office.

Yeah, it’s almost like the style of a reality show (I’m not saying it’s real, obviously) Just the style.

It’s a guy following the people of the office, hoping to exploit the characters actions/blackmail them/make a tv show/study them. Michael ALWAYS looks right into the camera because he’s a “rising star in comedy”. Jim looks to say like “did you get that?” I think it’s just for “the records”.

Yes, it is explained in the early episodes why the camera crew is around. They are filming a documentary about Dunder Mifflin. This doesn’t really explain why the cameras start appearing in non-work related things, such as Michael and Jan’s dinner party though.

It must be fun for those actors to actually be able to acknowledge and act up towards the cameras, compared to traditional filming where it’s only the newbies who look at the camera lens.

The characters are sometimes very much aware of the presence of the film crew.