In today's lesson I looked at the poster and film trailer for 'Paranormal Activity'. The film is based around true events that happened to a couple in America in 2006 and the files were released in 2007, due to live footage being put into the film, the film was banned and re-changed and then re-released in 2009.
The trailer begins showing a shot of the couple on the hand-held camera to show across to the audience who the main people are which is a common convention as it not only tells the audience who the main characters are but to also try and get across the plot straight away to keep the audience's attention.
The trailer doesn't have a lot of music, mainly dialouge from the characters but there is some music that puts the audience on edge. We see some of the footage from the bedroom which is where the demon begins to haunt Katie and Micah. The music starts here to keep the audience on edge to prepare them for what is to come, the rest of this snippet is eerie and creepy.
On the trailer thing's like "the scariest film of the year" and "most terryfying film of the year" which is also seen on the poster. These captions give something for the audience to read rather than just watch the trailer the whole way through. It helps keep them on edge and want to watch the film. From here on the music is very upbeat and fast, keeping the audience's attention, showing them more clips of the most terryfing bits but cutting out before anything drastic happens and anything too big is given away.
The trailer is very simple but very effective. It keeps the audience on the edge and creates a very eerie atmosphere. Not many special effects are used, and ordinary film camera's aren't used a lot due to being shown through the hand held camera that Micah uses a lot.
The trailer begins showing a shot of the couple on the hand-held camera to show across to the audience who the main people are which is a common convention as it not only tells the audience who the main characters are but to also try and get across the plot straight away to keep the audience's attention.
The trailer doesn't have a lot of music, mainly dialouge from the characters but there is some music that puts the audience on edge. We see some of the footage from the bedroom which is where the demon begins to haunt Katie and Micah. The music starts here to keep the audience on edge to prepare them for what is to come, the rest of this snippet is eerie and creepy.
On the trailer thing's like "the scariest film of the year" and "most terryfying film of the year" which is also seen on the poster. These captions give something for the audience to read rather than just watch the trailer the whole way through. It helps keep them on edge and want to watch the film. From here on the music is very upbeat and fast, keeping the audience's attention, showing them more clips of the most terryfing bits but cutting out before anything drastic happens and anything too big is given away.
The trailer is very simple but very effective. It keeps the audience on the edge and creates a very eerie atmosphere. Not many special effects are used, and ordinary film camera's aren't used a lot due to being shown through the hand held camera that Micah uses a lot.
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