Chronicle is an unconventional superhero film in that the students who get superpowers weren't born of galactic royalty nor has a mentor to tell them about what they get. The trailer therefor starts with the three main characters in school from the camera the protagonist (Dane DeHaan) films the whole movie with. When they stumble upon a mysterious underground area, they start to panic. Editing uses static transitions from each to the next thus emphasising that something wrong is happening until it blacks out.
When they get back to their normal lives, they start to experiment with what they can do and the main character has killed someone without thought. A tense rise in music is applied to build up the suspense and tension as the audience anticipate what they are going to do about their problem non of them their age can handle. The camera angles and shifts also become much more unstable implying no sense of control of the next events. The footage shows various damaged such as cars being lifted and crushed when the main character turns evil and lets loose with his powers.
The transitions near the end also become much more glitched and some footage is pix elated and static in between shots. Nerve-racking experiences from the whole film is put into a montage beside a crescendo of music. This would include the three flying in the sky through clouds, people crashing in between building floors and the units of army closing in on them. These random set of clips in a montage make the audience question what is happening so that people will watch it in cinemas.
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