After Dark Setting and Lighting ideas

A good inspiration for our setting is the house in Paranormal Activity. It appears to be a typical house at first, but at night things start to go wrong and the producers make it seem ‘creepy’ and ‘haunted’ in several different ways. First of all the use of Low Key Lighting creates a sense of mystery which is the effect we want to create in our clip.

From the audience’s perspective we see doors opening, footprints, and screeching sounds which suggests that there is a supernatural being in the house. Although it is very effective, the effects are not expensive or difficult to create which means it can fit with our low budget.

In Paranormal Activity we see a lot of visual effects which create the haunted feeling, such as the swinging chandelier. As well as using sound in our clip we could incorporate some flickering lights which is quite common in other horror films.