Genre/Genres: psycological horror
Director: James Wan
The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson star as Ed and Lorraine Warren, who were American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. Their reports inspired the Amityville Horror.The Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family (Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor), who are experiencing increasingly disturbing events in their farmhouse in Harrisville, Burrillville, Rhode Island in 1971. the family later find out that the house was previously owned by n accused witch who had tried to sacrafise her week old child to the devil and later killed her self after putting a course on 'who ever would take her land'. the faimly want to perfom an exoercicim on the house and have to gather evidience to show the catholic church to do this. carolyn is then possed by the spirit and tries to kill her daughters but is restrained and the exorcism is the performed on er daving her self and children. the catholic then approve the rights to exorsise the house and investite the area.
which two sence impressed me and why?-
the first of my favourite two scenes is where daughter annabelle is woken during the night by a storm out side and gets out of her bed to find her dad, as she walks down the stairs calling for her father the camera follws her, i like the way this is shot because it feels like a point of view angle and like someone is watchig her and following her down the stairs. as the scene procedes i like the way the lighting flashes when the lightning hits and lights the room up so that everything can be seen for a sudden moment and then goes back the the darknesss f night leaving a lot to the imagination of what could happen. the camera angles throughout the whole scene are canted angles and to a point hand held camera, where ever annabelle moves so shoes the shot giving the illiosion there is something following her. as she retaracts from the stairs the lighting gets even darker showing a presence and the darkness cannoting death. the music during this part of the scene builds tention as the audience know something bad is going to happen. once annabelle has caught a glimpse of the spirit in the cellar the misic changes completley, the high pitches and fast paced music creates drama and strikes fear as the daughter tries to get away. once the chair has hit the watt the music stops and gives you a second to catch your breath.
the sec ond scene i really liked was the scene when one of the daughters hears noises coming from their wardoribe during the night, as she gets up to look inside the wardrobe her sister sits up in bed and sees a spirit sitting on top of the wardrobe as her sister opens it. i like the camera angle of the shot that shows the spirit, she is at a high point in the shot and shows that she has power over the two girls as she jumps down to grab the older daughter. the lighting in this scene again is ver low key and dark i like this because it is a very simple way to make the scene moch more creepy and suspenceful.
How has watching this film helped you understand this genre of filmmaking? Which features on the genre checklist did you spot in the film? When? How?
this helped me understand the genre of film making because it used many of the features that are on our horror genre checklist the first that i noticed was the use of a creepy enclosed location, which was obviously the house they were living in, it was old fashioned and cluttered with creaky floorboards and big wooden doors. in the house the lighting was also always low key this represents that the house is 'doomed' and connotes danger and death. other miss en scene includes the use of music to create tention and other feelings such as feer throughout the entire film.
the editing throughout this film included lots of canted angles espessially when building tension, i think that this is done specifically to lone characters when they are about to be attacked by the spirit, an example for this is buring the build up for annabelle to be attacked in the cellar.
the male hero is represented in this film by the dad he is the saviour in many sences including the one mentioned above when he saves annabelle.
Which aspects of the film would you like to include in your own trailer? Why?
the aspets of this film that i will try and use in my trailer is the low key lighting because i think that that is a really easy and effective way to convey fear to the audience. i also liked the creepy isolated location that they used which i hope that we can find somewhere similar that gives the same effect on our low budget!
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