Opening of Paranormal Activity
See clip to watch begging two minutes.
The openign two minutes of Paranormal activity shows a man documenting his home. He takes a trip around his home and shows the audience the whole house. As he is doing this he tells the audience which rooms are which and on some of them say's what he will change to them. This makes the audience think that they have just moved in even though they have not said this. With the audience thinking they have just moved in creates a huge enigma as they don't know the house very well and can make them not feel very comfortable in what they are watching.
As it is a documentary there is no music which can be seen as unusual however can make the audience feel even more scared because the film is using mundane realism even more making them be able to relate it to there own lives creating more tension and more scary.
When the two minutes begins to be over and it gets later into the film quiet, tension building music begins to be played. This makes the audience think that something bad is about to happen. When the music comes in the man is walking towards the garage and acts as if it is scary but shaking his hand and going up to grab the door handle. This makes tension in the audience because we never actually get to see inside the garage as the shot cuts straight away back into the kitchen. This creates enigma and will cause the audience to feel scared every time the garage is shown later in the film.
When the man is waking around, later on in the opening he says "where's Sarah" as we don't know who Sarah is this creates enigma and he is asking where she is. This makes the audience think that she will be one of the main characters in the film and could either go missing later on in the film or will be the main subject to the antagonist.
We only see the man who is holding the camera once and this is when he is walking into a room and waves at the refection of himself in the mirror - we still do not see him exactly within the first couple of minutes. This creates an enigma toward the audience and takes his identity away from him which comes across scary as people want to know what he looks like so they can see whether he will be a scary person involved in the film as they can look for the stereotypes to put it together.
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