Paranormal Activity (Peli ,2007)
Production
- Peli chose to shoot the picture with a home prosumer video camera, which was always on a tripod or something similar. This creating a higher degree of plausibility and allowed the audience to become more invested in the story and the characters
- No real script was used, instead, the actors were given outlines of the story and situations to improvise, a technique known as retro-scripting also used in the making of The Blair Witch Project (Sanchez, 1999) and Monsters (Edwards, 2010).
- Production companies involved were Solana Films and Blumhouse Productions.
- Peli was in talks with Dreamworks to remake the film with a bigger budget before release, however during the test screening people left the screening because the film was so scary, so he turned down the deal.
Distribution
- Paranormal Activity premiered at Screamfest Horror Film Festival in North America on October 14, 2007
- For the sequel of the first film, made after Paramount acquired the film, had screenings on September 25, 2009, in thirteen college towns across the United States. On his website, director Oren Peli invited internet users to demand where the film went next by voting on eventful.com. This was the first time a major motion picture studio used the service to virally market a film.
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