Paranormal Activity 2 Review.

Paranormal Activity 2 Review.

 

 

Paranormal Activity 2 Analysis:

From this table you can see that the majority of viewers are aged between 15 and 24.

For our opening two minutes Jess and I are creating a film similar to paranormal activity 2 therfore this table helps us find out our target audience.

In this trailer for Paranormal Activity 2, tension is created right from the beginning in the music played, the chosen clips from the film that they chose to show. From this trailer you can gather that the film is about a family who are being haunted by a ghost/poltergeist. I haven't seen all three films therfore do not know the actual storyline, although after speaking to Jess she has told me that it is confusing and therfore the storyline isn't as straightforward as she had hoped. And even after watching the third she still doens't know exactly what is going on. She has told me that there are many clichés in this film (as expected) it is a horror.
For example, people being dragged by what appears nothing, but it is in fact the ghost, everything always happens at night, there are children involved, it is in a home (relevant to viewers who are probably watching at home). The fact that there are children involved creates an eery atmosphere as in many films children are secretly involved in the wrong doing, and in paranormal activity 3 the child becomes 'friends' with the demon/ghost. The thing that scares people the most about ghost films is that you cant obviously see when   something scary is going to happen. In this film, they have a dog as a pet but for the audience this dog is almost tellling them when something scary is about to happen. Dogs are known for the sixth sense which allows the audience to closely watch the dog's movements. If the dog were to start barking or howling the audience would be aware that something maybe happening soon. The music also creates the tension and keeps the audience nail biting whilst sitting on the edge of the seat. In the trailer we can see the familys lifestyle from one of their home cameras, we know this because of the date and time in the bottom right hand corner, this makes the audience enagage more and make it seem more real as they then start to believe that they are actually making a home video and that its not just the camera men, and the date and time have been included in editing afterwards The trailer engrosses me into wanting to know what happens and therfore am left wanting to watch the sequal of Paranormal Activity.