Also a low budget approach, the idea is that an entire film can unfold on nothing but screens – from laptops, to smartphones, to televisions and more – and it’s a cinematography style that has very much evolved from our screen-obsessed general lives.
Hollywood currently stands on the precipice of widely accepting a new and special form of aesthetic-driven storytelling.
It’s a similar position the industry found itself in after the release of The Blair Witch Project, only instead of “found footage,” now the trend is screen-centric narratives.
We’ve already seen a few features execute the method, including the Unfriended movies, Open Windows, and Searching, but right now only the surface is being scratched, and the reality is that there is still a lot of potential here that has yet to be explored.