9 Frame Analysis

This frame helps set the scene to the audience by giving them context about where the scene is happening and when. This allows the audience to connect to the film on a more personal level because it is from a time that they have already experienced. 

This frame helps the audience to understand the narrative of the film because this scene is actually from a previous Paranormal Activity film. 

This frame builds tension for the audience about the rest of the film. The black background in the frame as well as the text help to foreshadow darkness that is about to come. 

This frame is an important part within the film because it establishes a change of scene as well as time. The close up shot of the teenager helps to establish that she will be the main character within the film. 

The flickering of the light within the dark setting helps to create suspense as well as portraying the idea of supernatural horror within it. 

In this scene the audience are revealed to the child that plays a significant part within the film. The camera helps to foreshadow the supernatural horror to come because it peer down on the kids showing they are weak/vulnerable as if the supernatural being is watching them. 

In this frame we can see the camera is looking up at the young child helping to suggest the audience have under-estimated him. It also helps to foreshadow the tables turning in the favour of the young child due to him being portrayed as being dominant. 

In this scene the camera is taking a close up shot of the character looking straight at the camera. The idea of this shot is to create suspension by making the audience feel awkward and somewhat responsible for what is being foreshadowed. This is because the audience can see behind the child and what is coming but the child can't. 

This scene is all about building suspense, this is because the audience is left wandering who this figure is and what it's intentions are. Are they an antagonist or not?