Chronicle

Music
There is no non-diegetic throughout most of the film. There is either no background music or the music is from a diegetic source such as a radio or a person as it is shot in the style of a documentary. The lack of music in itself helps to add atmosphere by making the film seem more real and like it could or could have happened in real life, what most thrillers hope to achieve.

Mise en scene
The most important prop within this film is the camera which records most of what happens in the film. It gives a realistic reason for why the boys lives are filmed closely, making it look like it was just a coincidence that they were being filmed when they gained there powers and that it was unexpected, it might have happened to anyone that found the hole, increasing the idea that it might/might have happened to anybody.

Shot types
The film is shot almost entirely in a documentary style, nearly all shots are handheld camera shots from the boy's camera but as there is usually always a boy behind it we can also see their point of view so point of view shots are created. The boys using the camera can create all kinds of other shots and most shots are naturally canted angle shots from the boys holding them unsteadily, how unhinged everything that is happening to them is can be seen through this. Other cameras capture longer shots to show the extent of the boys' destruction towards the end of the film.

Whether the film follows or challenges the conventions for this genre
Most thriller films are not filmed in this documentary style, there is no clear villain from the start, it is in fact the boy who owns the camera who from the start the audience would have expected to be the main protagonist whose power slowly makes him become the closest thing to a truly powerful villain in the film. However like most films of this type the boys start of powerless, and weaker than the boys at school then they accidentally gain powers and gain an advantage over others.

Target Audience
The target would have been mostly teenagers and young adults, mainly male. They attracted this audience with the mainly male teenage cast, doing things teens could relate to such as going to school and parties.

The company
20th century fox- they make a large variety of films but so far they have distributed 3 of the films which I have analysed in my research.

How social groups have been represented.
Men are in the main roles, they are adventurous and are the ones to discover powers. Women are seen very little in the film and the woman with the largest part is weak and sick, needs men to look after her and allows herself and her child to be abused.

From the films beginning some may have expected the film to be about a social misfit and may not have expected the supernatural which happens later in the film.

I chose this film to research to see how teenagers would react to having sudden great powers, although we won't get to show this happen to the character in our short piece it is something that would have happened to them if we had been able to make the whole film.