Paranormal Detectives

Abstract

As a culmination of my academic education at the Montana State University School of Film and Photography, I pitched and produced a ten-minute fiction film, titled Paranormal Detectives, during this Spring Semester 2012. Part classically-filmed and part gritty-mockumentary, my film revolves around a down and out documentarian, Scott, and his crew who joins a famous team of ghost hunters for a one night investigation at a haunted theater. Scott is determined to prove that their ghost hunting methods are false to save his career but at the end of a night of hilariously inept investigating, a ghost appears that the camera cannot see. Overall, this film underscores that it is the relationships between those that search for the dead that really matter and that, even with our technological advances nowadays, not everything can be captured and explained.