Paranormal Activity

Paranormal activity was made in 2007, it lasts 87 minutes and the genre is a Horror/mystery. This film was released on 25^th November 2009 in the UK.

The film is about a couple moving to a Suburban home, then the couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.

Director:

Oren Peli                              

Writer:

Oren Peli

Stars:

Katie Featherston , Micah Sloat and Mark Fredrichs

This film cost them £15,000 (estimated) to make, this is a good budget to have as most Hollywood films cost over £100,000 to make so therefore Paranormal Activity is a very cheap film to make and because of this they earn a lot of profit.

The main problem in the paranormal activity films are that they make supernatural seem believable, other films that also have this problem are ‘the exorcist’.

The suspense is achieved by many screens in daylight is them analysing what happened throughout the night.

The amateurish filming makes it believable, so like we could do it ourselves.

The ways the director makes us believe the film by:

·        Bringing an expert in

·        Dr Fredericks and Dr Abraham

The handheld camera they use within this film makes it seem more realistic, also it becomes our eyes as we are watching through the camera to see when any spooky events happen. Also we are watching them sleeping, this acts as in we are in the film too.

Also in this film there is no non-digetic sound, also simple noises become scary. Furthermore there is an effective use of light/shadows/darkness, which creates evilness as we can barely see what’s happening so we struggle like the main characters do.

Finally in this film we are waiting all the time for the demon to strike, as this is what happens all throughout the film so therefore we expect it.