CLP and Paranormal Activity

Last week Adam Rosenberg from MTV Movies Blog asked Paranormal Activity fans to send in questions to director Oren Peli for their interview. Crooked Lake Productions sent in three technical questions and Mr. Paranormal answered them.

For those of you who have yet to experience Paranormal Activity and it’s organic creepiness, here is the rundown. After it’s festival debut and partnership with Paramount, Paranormal Activity screened midnight showings in limited theaters while initiating a genius viral marketing campaign on the inter-web with the help of twitterland, facebook and bloody-disgusting.com. The movie had sold out screenings across America’s map which created a buzz larger than the second coming. 1,000,000 fans demanded a nationwide release at paranormalmovie.com and Paramount gave it to them. The eleven thousand dollar film has now made more than $65 million dollars, it is officially the most profitable movie of all time.

I personally have seen the film three times and plan to sneak a fourth viewing in before Halloween. But first, lets see our questions answered.

“Finally, Henry from Crooked Lake Productions had a trio of technical questions:
What kind of camera did you shoot on?

Oren: Sony FX1 high definition prosumer camera.
Was Micah primarily the camera operator?
Oren: Yes. In 99% of the cases it’s either Katie or Micah operating the camera. Mostly Micah.
Who was responsible for the sound design of the film?
Oren: The original version was me, but then once Paramount got involved we went through another round of sound cleanup and sweetening. But I knew i wanted to make it sound as authentic as possible so that you can believe that everything basically came from the camera microphone, so nothing sounds manufactured. So that’s why we have no soundtrack or anything else that’s been added later on by the mixer.”
You can read the interview in it’s entirety at MTV Movies Blog.

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