1. By Charlie, Tom and Joey and Simeron
Iconography & Conventions
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Paranormal - Ghosts,
Possession and Haunted
House.
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• “Iconography is the identification, description and the
interpretation of the content of images.”
• Conventions is a way in which something is usually done:
"to attract the best patrons the movie houses had to ape
the conventions and the standards of theatres"
What is Iconography and
Conventions?
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Name: Mr Lloyd-Brown
Genre: Paranormal
Correct or Incorrect?: Correct
If incorrect, why? N/A
What else comes to mind when you think of the paranormal subgenre?
Ghosts, Curses, Hexes, Exorcism and Evil little children.
Interview 1: charlie
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Name: Jack Gathern
Genre: Paranormal
Correct or Incorrect?: Correct
If incorrect, why? N/A
What else comes to mind when you think of the paranormal sub genre?
Ghosts, Spirits, Found footage and young Children.
INTERVIEW 2: CHARLIE
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Name: Leisa Glasgow
Genre: Paranormal
Correct or Incorrect?: Correct
If incorrect, why? N/A
What else comes to mind when you think of the paranormal sub genre?
Ghosts, People trying to get footage of ghosts and Weird going on’s.
INTERVIEW 3: tOM
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Name: Ronan Tackney
Genre: Ghosts
Correct or Incorrect?: Incorrect
If incorrect, why? I’ve seen variety of films which included ghosts.
What else comes to mind when you think of the paranormal sub genre?
Intense, Very jumpy, Spirits, Ghosts, Possession and Makes you
question the reality of ghosts.
INTERVIEW 4: TOM
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Name: Paul Carabini
Genre: Paranormal
Correct or Incorrect?: Correct
If incorrect, why? N/A
What else comes to mind when you think of the paranormal sub genre?
Ghosts, a family household, Spirits and stuff going missing.
INTERVIEW 5: joey
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Name: George Lawrance
Genre: Paranormal
Correct or Incorrect?: Correct
If incorrect, why? N/A
What else comes to mind when you think of the paranormal sub genre?
Spirits, Loud noise, Possession and things that can’t be explained.
Interview 6: joey
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Narrative Structure
Paranormal horror movies tend to follow a linear narrative structure.
Todorov Theory
Paranormal films don’t always follow the Todorov Theory. Todorov’s theory is a
theory he believed could be applied to any film which follows five stages called
the equilibrium, disequilibrium, acknowledgement, solving and new equilibrium.
E.g. Paranormal activity
The Plot
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• A lot of different camera techniques are used in paranormal films. One
camera technique used is Handheld. This shows the viewers their point of
view. This will create suspense and tension.
• There is a lot of different editing techniques used in paranormal films. The
most used editing technique is montage editing which creates tension and
narrative enigma’s throughout the film as the editing is so quick that it
confuses the viewers.
• There is a lot of different sound techniques used in paranormal films. One
common sound technique is diegetic sound. This is a sound which is from a
source seen on screen.
CAMERA WORK, editing, sounds
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• In paranormal films there is only really one type of character type and
that is flat characters. This is because they’re very complicated to
understand because they’re normally ghosts and demons haunting a
family home.
Character types
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• In paranormal films the most common setting is to be inside of
someone’s house, normally a family household where young children
live.
• Common themes in paranormal themes are the following:
Possession by demon, alien, ghost, etc.
Chill of being watched/stalked by something unknown.
Character who possess a natural scent which allures the opposite
gender, sometimes to distraction.
Setting and themes
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Character representations in the sub genre paranormal are quite stereotypical
usually. for example a majority of females that feature in paranormal films are
portrayed as being vulnerable and in need of protection. usually the women
would be within the age ranges of teen and young adult as horror (paranormal
films) are aimed at this target audience.
Children are very similar to women in a sense that they are very vulnerable,
however in most recent films children are the character that eventually get
possessed as it is unpredictable and counter stereotypical.
The male character is usually portrayed as being the heroic character in most
paranormal films.His technique is used to make the audience scared and make
them think that the narrative can happen to anyone.
Characters representation and
mise en scene
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• Paranormal films are quite frightening because they’re based on true
stories and the footage you see in films are first hand and it creates
many narrative enigma’s. For example: “Could this be happening to
me when I’m asleep?”
• It is scary because people are being haunted in their own home and
throughout the films you hear sudden loud noises and movement.
The purpose
