Paranormal Activity 2

I've decided to analyse the horror genre teaser trailer, however this is not a analysis of a teaser trailer. I chose 'Paranormal Activity 2' to analyse because it was appropriate for genre I'm doing.

First shot of static. This effect goes on and off for a few seconds, having hardly any sound apart from static whilst this is happening shows us straight away that this is a horror film. A shot of an open door in black and white seems to make the audience uneasy. Amplified sound of someone walking upstairs with a black screen. The black screen remains for a good few seconds which brings confusion. Suddenly we hear an impact sound which is there to make the audience jump as body hurdles at the audience, low angel shot of ceiling with hand held camera work disorientates audience. Camera goes back to shot of the door the body hurdled from, static starts to appear again as camera very slowly zooms in which unsettles the audience. Ambient wind noise takes place, this has an effect on the audience as it sets the spooky mood for the audience. Text is directed to the audience, it targets them. Camera continues to slowly zoom in and suddenly it cuts to static and then to 2 different shots of audience terrified in the cinema, the picture quality is night vision when cutting to the audience, this gives more of a spook to audience. Cut back to shot of door, camera continues to slowly zoom into open door with just darkness inside the room camera faces, this continues to unsettle audience. Cut back to static and suddenly Impact sound again comes in, a woman appears in an ECU as this is in black and white it seems to disrupt and disturb audience to a further extent. Different shots of audiences in cinema screaming and jumping makes you want to do the same. Cut back to static, cutting to a blank screen and then to a high angel shot of a baby’s room everything is quite & still in the room including the dog laying on the floor with text of time in the bottom corner making audience unsettled as it’s almost watching cctv. Cut to static and back to a shot of a garden, and then of the kitchen. Lots of naturalistic sounds appear in the garden but pots start to clack together in the kitchen. Voyeur this is building tension and also making audience feel like their almost spying on people. Cut back to babies room we start to hear that sound effect of someone walking up the stairs, chair starts to rock forth and back, dog then becomes unsettled and turns head towards camera which keeps confusion as dog continues to look at chair behind him. Static shot and then cut straight to tag line ' nothing can prepare you'. Static shot and then a cut back to the babies room. Dog has stood up looking towards the open door, baby has awaken looking at the dog. This unsettles the audience even though its pure silence, as the dogs body language puts fear into audience by looking scared himself. He starts to growl and then barks, this completely unsettles the audience as they now know some things definitely not right. Static cut to black background with white text. Static cut to down stairs dinning room/front door entrance. Static cut straight back to baby's room with a thunder lightening sound effect and a person dressed in black at the entrance, we notice that the dog is nowhere to be seen. This scares the audience as the impact sound shocks them and a person dressed in black appears out of nowhere. People don't really watch trailers in night vision so it's unsettling to watch it in this colour too. Static cut to black and then a '2' lights up but flickering on and off. Then the title appears 'Paranormal Activity'. When the production logo's come up on the screen, they start juddering which make the audience feel very uneasy.

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