Parnormal Activity Trailer

The techniques used in this trailer is very effective in targeting an audience. First of all it is shot from the audience in a cinema point of view. By watching the audiences reactions as they hide and are shocked it suggests to us that the film is exciting, terrifying and worth watching. We can see what is happening in the trailer as well and with the audience's reactions of screaming create as sense of suspense and terror. Using a hand-held camera conveys the sense of realism the film is trying to achieve and illustrates that they are completely alone which is what i am trying to portray in my trailer. This alternate way of filming is becoming more popular films such as 2009 District 9 were released and filmed in the same manner. The more popular they become with a mass audience the more they go from being mainly independent productions to quite mainstream films. This means that they may have more production values and budget and could change the whole aesthetics of the hand-held camera realism films. The trailer relies on the audiences primal fears, the sense that something is there in your home but you do not know what. Shots of the doors banging open and close suggest a present. The trailer adheres to the conventions of a trailer as the cuts if the shots quicken and speed up towards the end of the trailer to create a tension and suspense.