2. Basics
• Genre: Thriller/Paranormal
• 3 main characters in the main part of the movie
• 1 for the opening sequence
• Obsessed with paranormal activity
• You see the opening sequence from two perspectives:
• Boy – hand held, documenting his next location
• Antagonist – First person view, watching and following the
boy.
• Location: Abandoned rugby house, with graffiti interior.
• Production Company name: Tremor Productions
3. Storyline (whole movie)
• A group of teenagers go to a abandoned
building in the middle of nowhere to get away
from the police after they were mistakenly
found next to a murder victim and find
themselves in more trouble than they
imagined when an unwanted guest arrives at
the building.
4. Story Line (Opening sequence)
• 1st shot – ident
• 10th shot – flickering between feet of killer and boys face close up to
camera, hurt.
• 2nd shot – montage shots/title sequence
• 4th shot – Vlog from webcam documenting next location
• 5th shot – Travelling to location
• 6th shot – Antagonist POV, watching boy approaching location.
• 7th shot – boy enters antagonist see’s then hides.
• 8th shot – tracking round location following boy, flickering between
hand held and antagonist POV.
• 9th shot – Hand held POV – noise, boy drops camera. camera on
floor boy walks into another room – WHITE NOISE.
(The opening scene takes place after the events of the movie happened.)
6. Roles (for whole movie)
• Michelle-17 years old, terrified of ghosts, very
shy.
• Will- 18 years old overly protective of
Michelle, tries to be the hero.
• Lucy-18 years old, bossy, tries to make
everyone's mind up for them.
7. Sequences that influenced Ominous.
• Paranormal activity – scenes with hand held
shooting and of paranormal presence.
• Supernatural Season 8 episode 4 (bitten)- uses
the idea of documenting the events of
accident.
• Woman in Black- uses the idea of going to a
building haunted by a supernatural being.
• Insidious 1 and 2- uses the idea of someone
being possessed.
