10 Annoying Problems With Found Footage Movies
4. Forcing In Multiple Cameras
Some of these films use multiple cameras, which is obviously a way of providing more angles and getting around the limitations of only having one point of view. This can be effective, but at some point it just feels like the director is bored of the gimmick and just wants to go back to making a normal movie, and then what’s the point of making this found footage at all?
Take a moment at the end of Chronicle where dozens of cameras are forced into the scene, floating in the air around the action. This basically allows Josh Trank to cut to wherever he wants to, and it feels like this was written just so the scene could function more like a regular movie, as if by this point Trank was really tired of found footage and wanted to be able to cut around.
Having an additional angle can be fine in cases where the movie focuses on a documentary crew, for example, but too often it feels like the other cameras are just forced and unnecessary.