Paranormal Activity screening guide and response promptInstructions:1. Complete the following table as you watch the film. 2. Use the questions below to guide your observations, notes, and analysis. At this point in the course, your observations should be more targeted and less random. Try to write down only those observations you find interesting or appealing in some way or that relate to the guide questions below. 3. Respond to the prompt below with a 250 to 300 word response.4. Review the rubric to make sure your table entries and response meet the criteria for the grade you want.5. Submit the typed table and response via the Blackboard submission page or as a hard copy in class.ObservationsNotes and analysis

Use the following questions to guide your observation, notes, and analysis:1. What formal elements of the film make it appear like we are watching a home video?2. In what ways do the stylistics of a home video differ from those of a film and how do those stylistics affect the emotional tenor of Paranormal Activity? In other words, is the film scarier as a home video and why?3. How does the technology of vision and sound represented in the film relate to the paranormal activity in the house?4. What is Katies attitude toward the camera? How might her attitude toward the camera figure into the fears underlying the film?5. What anxieties or fears about modern life might this film be repressing? Respond to the following prompt in 250 to 300 words:Use two or three of your observations and one or two of your critical notes to answer one of the questions, two through five, above. Do not respond to question one.

RubricI will grade your journal entry according to the following criteria:90-100 pointsAt least twenty-five observations covering the complete length of the film have been made in the first column. Observations are accurate and contain specific details.

At least ten notes and analysis comments covering the complete length of the film have been made in the second column. Notes and analysis link the observations in the first column to the screening guides questions and prompts.

The written response to the prompt answers the prompt question(s) using detailed observations from the film. The observations used as examples are relevant to the question and response and their relevance is clearly explained.

80-89 pointsBetween fifteen and twenty-four observations that may or may not cover the length of the film have been made in the first column. Observations are somewhat accurate and are somewhat detailed.

Between five and nine notes and analysis comments that may or may not have covered the length of the film have been made in the second column. There is a tenuous relationship between the notes and analysis comments, the observations in the first column, and the screening guide questions and prompts.

The written response only partially answers the prompt question(s) and observations may or may not be detailed. The observations used as examples are somewhat relevant to the question and response and their relevance may or may not be clearly explained.

70-79 pointsFewer than fifteen observations that may or may not cover the length of the film have been made in the first columns. Observations are not accurate and lack detail.

Fewer than five notes and analysis comments that may or may not cover the length of the film have been made in the second column. There is little relationship between the notes and analysis comments, the observations in the first column, and the screening guide questions and prompts.

The written response does not answer the prompt question and observations may or may not have been used to support the response. If observations are used, they may or may not be relevant to the question and response and their relevance may or may not be clearly explained.

Paranormal activity screening guide and promptDevelop some of your observations into a 250 word analysis of how TVs haunted nature.