Chronicle is a found footage film that follows the story of three friends, Andrew, Matt, and Steve, and how they gain their supernatural powers. While they are at one of their friends party they discover a deep hole that has a high pitched sounds screeching out of it. When they go to check out where the sounds is coming from they reach the end of the hole and find a strange blue-glowing structure. As the high pitched sound starts to become unbearable, Steve's nose begins to bleed badly, and right than Andrew's camera cuts out. When the camera is turned back on we are witness to the three friends trying to learn their new abilities.
What made the story so unique compared to most supernatural thrillers, is that the whole understanding of the power is completely left up to us. In all super hero stories we always know where the power of the villain and the hero came from, therefore we already know the motive behind both of the there goals, making the story more predictable. In the case of Andrew, Matt, and Steve, they stumble upon the structure and with no other knowledge, gain this power. We as an audience get to see these three individuals minds expand, as they gain godlike powers. Their minds could take them anywhere, and as their power grows stronger, that same power begins to corrupt, and take over their body.
Chronicle adds some fresh new elements to the somewhat dry style of "found-footage" filming. At points when the character Andrew (who did most of the filming) did not have the camera, we as an audience got to see the scenes through a different camera instead. Even some cameras with no sound such as, hospital cameras in hallways, or police dashboard cameras. It was new, and realistic approach to a genre which at times feels duplicated. It has also since improved the quality of how distorted some scenes with lots of action can turn out, which a lot people complained about when watching Cloverfield(2008).
I'm extremely excited to see what comes next from Writer, Max Landis, and Director Josh Trank. For this to be a first full length film for both of them, makes this film even more impressive. They both to seem to have a passion for science fiction, which is a genre that is need of some serious help. I'm curious to see if they continue on with the story of Chronicle, or if either of them have new stories to tell.
What made the story so unique compared to most supernatural thrillers, is that the whole understanding of the power is completely left up to us. In all super hero stories we always know where the power of the villain and the hero came from, therefore we already know the motive behind both of the there goals, making the story more predictable. In the case of Andrew, Matt, and Steve, they stumble upon the structure and with no other knowledge, gain this power. We as an audience get to see these three individuals minds expand, as they gain godlike powers. Their minds could take them anywhere, and as their power grows stronger, that same power begins to corrupt, and take over their body.
Chronicle adds some fresh new elements to the somewhat dry style of "found-footage" filming. At points when the character Andrew (who did most of the filming) did not have the camera, we as an audience got to see the scenes through a different camera instead. Even some cameras with no sound such as, hospital cameras in hallways, or police dashboard cameras. It was new, and realistic approach to a genre which at times feels duplicated. It has also since improved the quality of how distorted some scenes with lots of action can turn out, which a lot people complained about when watching Cloverfield(2008).
I'm extremely excited to see what comes next from Writer, Max Landis, and Director Josh Trank. For this to be a first full length film for both of them, makes this film even more impressive. They both to seem to have a passion for science fiction, which is a genre that is need of some serious help. I'm curious to see if they continue on with the story of Chronicle, or if either of them have new stories to tell.