Thursday, 24 November 2011

Paranormal Activity


86minutes Horror/Mystery Thriller

Released 25 November 2009 in the UK

Summary

After moving into a suburban home, a couple have become increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence, which they later find out that it wasn’t the ladies first experience with it.

The budget of the film was $15,000(estimated)

In its opening weekend it made $77,873 (Sep 09)

Gross Profit: $193,335,800 Worldwide Jan 10

The main problem within the film was to make the supernatural seem believable

How to make us believe – this is where an ‘expert’ is brought in

-          A sceptic who we identify with (normality)

-          As the sceptic believes we start to as well

Or another way is a case study of a girl which had similar experiences.

How is the suspense believed, well elements of normality are in the film throughout, of what people would just do in their normal lives.

The amateur nature of the filming makes it believable as we could do it, so we establish it as reality.

Suspense within the film

-          Handheld camera show realism and puts you in their place

-          With the camera show us them sleeping and what happens, its shows vunrability.

No ‘non-diegetic’ sound, simple noises within the film became scary

Expert won’t stay made the tension rise

Narrative Structure

-          Building Climax

-          Waiting for Demon to STRIKE

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