The Conjuring- intro study

The Conjuring- Intro study

The genre that The Conjuring is horror, horror is a genre that sets fear, shock or disgust in the audience, usually in the form of gore, darkness, the supernatural or psychological scares such as serial killers.

• Warner Bros- looks dark and eerie.
• Tension non-diegetic sound.
• Black screen while you can hear the characters talking about the moving dolls- makes you wonder what happened.
• Shots of the side of the doll face- creepy but not all of the dolls face can be seen which makes the audience a bit curious as to what she looks like.
• Slow zoom out of the scene of the three characters to create an eerie movement and establishing shot.
• Cuts to the doll sitting in the chair which creates a lot of tension because of the face of the doll, a dark background to make the tension rise.
• Slow zoom in to the doll, concentrating on the eyes.
• Cuts to an event which happened previously of two women entering a door, the doll sitting at the end of the corridor, creepily quiet.
• Narration (from the conversation seen in the establishing shot) telling the story of how the doll moves.
• Non-diegetic sound when the woman opens the door and sees blood.
• Static and anxious sounds when the camera focuses on specific items that represent danger and fear, for example the scratched out faces in the picture frames.
• Non-diegetic sound gets louder and then suddenly gets quieter to put the focus on the writing and the mysterious rolling crayon.
• The music gets louder when they pick up the doll and throw it away.
• Zooms onto the doll in the dumpster to show the details of how the woman throws a slip of paper with it, and it also makes the audience feel even more anxious because of the stare of the doll.
• The screen goes black and the sound of banging is heard which makes the audience feel uneasy. The two women go out of their rooms to check the door and find a note saying "MISS ME" on the floor.
• As soon as the woman closes the door, the loud banging returns which startles the audience.
• After the door is opened again, the expression on the woman shows the horror that she sees, the doll on the floor, a slow zoom out of the dolls face makes it more anxious because of the close zoom up, it makes the audience feel more claustrophobic because they can't see the surroundings.
• Narration is heard over this and then the camera and time zone goes back to the present time, the three characters sitting on the sofa talking.