Paranoia
By: Khem Slawson

Film Opening Conventions
• Music reflects the mood and genre
• Credits
• Introducing the characters
• Enigma – who was that girl at the end? What
happened after she was stood behind him?
What happened to her? Why was he tying up
the rope?

Mise-on-scene
• Costumes – The boy was wearing everyday clothing. He was
wearing white top which signifies as good like their memories and
black trousers which signifies as bad or something bad happened.
• Actors – a boy and a girl. The boy sat on his bed looks tense to show
that he was worried or scared. The girl at the end just keep standing
up.
• Make-up – no make up as the boy is the protagonist and you can’t
really the girl’s face. But the boy’s face is a little bit white this shows
his innocence. And the girl’s face is dark to show danger and
scariness.
• Props – clock, rope. Clock signifies as time which was their
memories. The rope tells us that she could have used it to kill
herself.
• Setting – It was set in a house

Editing
• Fade in, fadeout – to go back from the
memories
• Jump cuts at the end of the film which creates
scariness and suspense.
• Low key lighting
• High key lighting

Camera
• Close up shot to focus on the clock
• Mid shot on the characters to focus on their
facial expression.
• Non-diagetic – sound of a clock ticking on the
background, sound of typing on a keyboard.
The scary, slow, eerie, sad music on the
background which fit in the horror genre.

Likes & dislikes
• I don’t like how the camera was used at the
start because I was quite shaky.
• I like how they have used their props which
goes with their horror genre.
• I don’t like the end part when it flashes back
to what happened before because it looks
weird.