The document provides an analysis of a trailer pitch that combines elements of the films Paranormal Activity and The Exorcist. It will tell a story of two students whose friendship is tested when one becomes possessed by an evil entity. Key elements that will be used include handheld camera work and a point-of-view style from Paranormal Activity to build tension, as well as the demonic possession and exorcism themes from The Exorcist. Feedback from a questionnaire suggested subverting the expectation that the innocent victim will survive.

1. Pitch and analysis
Jaspreet Bhatoa

2. Paranormal activity meets The Exorcist in a horrifying
tragedy.
When innocence is overtaken by possession, the friendship
of two students
will be tested.
Until evil or innocence prevails.

3. Paranormal activity is a supernatural The Exorcist (1973) was the first film to
horror film. The film creates tension play upon the idea of a demon
through the handheld camera and possession inside a human. We are
POV. The real footage and the going to use this idea in our trailer. As
suspicious figures and this was Paranormal activity and The Exorcist
implied by Freud's aspect of are similar films, as someone gets
Voyeurism. possessed.
Paranormal activity meets The Exorcist in a horrifying
tragedy.
When innocence is overtaken by possession, the
friendship of two students will be tested.
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Until evil or This word prevails.
well know in theory suggest that the that the victim may survive
horror, as it is innocent one always or not, by using this word it
seen as a horror survives any situation. This challenges Barthes
paradigms. This is will challenge our trailer pleasure text theory.
when the the because the victim always
trailer takes a turn survives but when we
from good to bad. distributed our
questionnaire, the feedback
was they didn’t want the
victim to survive.