Our setting for our film was stereotypical of a normal house, there was nothing different about the house to any others. We felt the costumes worn by the actors were stereotypical of a teenager and fitted our target audience well. Also the age of the actor was also stereotypical of a teenager as it fitted the age. The acting portrayed by the actor was stereotypical of a frightened teenager, one of which is unsure of what is happening and anxious of what is coming. At the end of the film when it switched to 3 weeks earlier, the two actors having a conversation was stereotypical of a normal day at college and a normal social intervention between two friends.

The costumes worn by the actor were stereotypical of a teenager, blue trousers and a top which represented a young person lounging around at home like a normal day. The age of the actor represented the age certificate of the film, being at 15, and the actor being 16 we felt it suited our target audience of 15-30 and it appealed well to the audience. We chose the actor to be male as we felt that if we used a female the storyline would seem like the female was being stalked, and we felt the key points in the film would not have been suitable for the female and not matched the storyline. The other actor was used to show the audience that the main actor has friends and that everything before the horror of that night three weeks later was normal up till that day.

Jamie Ross - ActorJackson Ghosh - Actor

These are the actors and actresses who starred in Paranormal Activity 3, which we based our film and plot around.

These are the actress and actor who played the major roles in Paranormal Activity 2, we used the kitchen door slam which was similar to a part in this film, we also used the door knock with no one outside similar to this film.

The actors from the previous slide are quite young, and below 30 years old, which is partly the reason we chose to use the plot of Paranormal Activity for our film. Our first scene was used so the audience could get to know the actor, understand his age, costumes and so the audience could realise the ordinary setting. When the camera first zoomed in on the window and the actor failed to realise that’s when the film started to familiarise with the plot from Paranormal Activity. The knock at the door was similar to the film, also we used the music build up similar to the one used in Inception. the heartbeat was added as an individual idea to add tension to the ending of the film. We didn’t want to end the film with a climax as that was not part of the mark scheme, so we added a 3 weeks earlier scene to end the film like it was the beginning.

We felt these things that occurred in the film such as the heartbeat and the music build up suited the target audience and the social group. It can be to males and females as we thought that if we only targeted one gender then we would miss out on mass audiences and lose viewers.

We aimed our film at both male and female social groups because we didn’t want to lose any viewers from this, we also felt that not many adults aged above 30 will watch our film, we felt as a teenager was the main actor and the costumes worn by both actors were fitting of a stereotypical teenager we decided that the best social group would be 15 to 30 year olds. As shown on the right hand side in the picture, this is what our target audience was, 15 to 30 year olds of either gender.