Chronicle By Matthew Jensen

The article from the magazine “American cinematographer” (VOL 93, Issue 3, 2012) by Holben,J titled “Chronicle shot by Matthew Jensen, gives the found footage genre a new twist” considers useful information about one of the successful found footage film examples “Chronicle”. The information in the article describes the camera movements used to create narrative in the film, lighting effects and in general the article briefly discovers the camera work in found footage genre. In the article Holben, J interviews the “Chronicle” cinematographer Matthew Jensen, who also worked in “True Blood” and “Game of Thrones”. Jensen highlights that found footage films limited to lighting fixtures, as the lighting in scene has to be as natural as it could. Moreover, Jensen mentions that the amateur visual style found footage film was a challenge to him, because he as a professional cinematographer was trained to put the camera in the right place. As found footage genre requires shaky, realistic, panning around, organic movements. Therefore, even

Nowadays, everyone could call themselves filmmakers and make movies with DSLR cameras, software knowledge and small budget. In consequence, the found footage genre has been created by amateur production. Moreover, the use of shaky camera movements, poor lighting, poor sound, improvising scenes and first person narrative make it looks like amateur production. The “real life” scenario representation in the found footage makes the genre appearance true-to-life in audience’s view. The audience understands the story as it happened for