ActivityParanormal4

PlotOn October 2009, Kristi Rey and her husband Daniel are killed by her demon-possessed sister Katie. She then abducts Kristi’s 1 year old son, Hunter, unaware that Daniel’s teenage daughter, Ali, is still alive and away on a school trip. A text states that Katie and Hunter’s whereabouts remained unknown.

In November 2011, a teenager named Alex and her family live in Suburban Henderson, Nevada with her mother Holly, her farther Doug and her little brother Wyatt. Alex and her friend Ben discover their neighbours child, Robbie, is hiding in their family tree house. The next day, Robbie’s mother falls ill and is taken to the hospital, leaving Robbie in the care of Alex’s family. Robbie begins mentioning an invisible friend, whose presence is captured by a series of cameras set up by Alex and Ben. One night, Alex notices several cars outside Robbie’s house, but flees after being confronted by a woman. During the day, Robbie draws a green symbol on Wyatt’s back, which Alex later determines to be associated with witchcraft and demonic possession.

Paranormal Activity 4 is the fourth instalment in the Paranormal Activity series. Released in 2012 and directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost. It is an American supernatural horror film.

This movie explores themes of possession but living in normality. Our trailer will feature this theme.

Tense sound is used at the beginning to show what happened in the past . There is also a lot of screams used when certain sections occur when the glass breaks . Other than that it is just music to build tension for the spectator. This will definitely be a technique that we will use in our paranormal horror trailer as we want to build tension and suspense for the spectators so that they are left wanting to know what will happen.

The clips are edited together very well. As it is a found/home made footage trailer when the clips change it cuts out and back in as it loses signal. There is also quite a lot of normal cuts to scenes to get through as much as they can in the trailer to show the spectator enough but not too much. Using the lose of signal cut would be good in our trailer.

NarrativeThis movie is an open ended narrative, this is because it can be carried on to another story of paranormal activity and you never know what will exactly happen, you try to work out what will happen but you never know what could happen as it is always left to tension building till the final part.

This is a mixture of a single-strand and a multi-strand narrative as it focuses on the main girl but has other characters that appear a lot but do now have a main part like her. Our trailer may be either of these.

It is also a linear structure as it each story follows on and is in chronological order. It begins with a flashback from a few years ago to explain to the spectator what happened and then continues the story in the present day and we see them grown up but with issues occuring. Our trailer would probably follow a linear structure.

AudienceParanormal Activity 4 has an age rating of 15 for the film. So this suggests that an audience under this age would not be appropriate to view the film as it may scare them.

This film is mainly aimed at teenagers as the main character is a teenager. This represents an ideology of age as people who are the same age as the characters are more likely to watch the film. Furthermore, teenagers are investigative and like to know everything that is happening and if something is out of the ordinary then they will want to explore and find out what it is. This film would also appeal to adults with an interest in paranormal movies.

Mise-en-sceneThe main setting of this trailer/film is within the main characters house which is the girl. Our trailer would probably be set in a house as we would like to explore a found footage theme. The costumes are fairly normal, nothing out of the ordinary just everyday clothing which adds to the found footage feel. The lighting is quite regular as it is shot from a camera/laptop.Most of the facial expressions and body language lead to an anxious and worried feel as they do not know what is happening.When she is in her room the laptop is always positioned to the right of her by her bed so that we can view the rest of her room, especially the door as we may be able to see things that she can’t particularly when she is sleeping and does not know what is happening as this means the spectator knows more than the character.

Quite a few camera angles/shots have been used in this trailer. An establishing shot so we know that it is set in a house but mainly it is self recorded by the main character so the camera moves around the room frequently. We follow people a lot around the house to find out what is happening. You can tell that it is found footage/home made as the camera shakes a lot which we may include in our trailer.