Film analysis to help my film opening.

1. The Conjuring
Film analysis helping our opening ideas.

2. Opening…
 The opening to this film is a flash back- the story of how
the doll Annabelle came to the women here. I hope our
opening is a sort of flash back, although not a flash
back to show a story, but a flash of the dolls, before all
hell lets lose, mixed with the happiness of children
playing and human dolls- setting the scene and making
the audience feel at ease from the beginning.

3. Sound…
 The sound above the conversation between the people is
daunting- as if quite crashing. This creates tension. I would
like to use this idea in half of my opening, one half as
nursery rhyme, the over half with the sound of running and
heavy breathing and also an eerie piece of music (quietly)
on top of it.
 Also the conservation they are having about the doll, minus
the "therapist"/ "church believers" saying there's no such
thing, I think this would be a good type of narration above
the scene of the person running in the forest- slow cuts of
speaking- a way of explaining to our audience about the
horror of the dolls that are haunting the town.

4. Camera
 The camera zooms out from a close up to the dolls
face. There is a quick jump shot from the flash back to
this shot- it looks as if this is now "up to date time". This
camera effect works because we are seeing the doll for
the first time- starting with an extreme close up is
important because it creates a scary feel for the film.
 Also, the camera at times appears to be hand held in
eye-line of the people they are speaking to, suggesting
at this time we as an audience are his eyes.

5. Mise-en-scene
 The mise-en-scene presents an oldish looking setting, obviously we can't re
do a room/ studio do to the lack of money, however we can use our settings to
create a doll house theme- someone's room is flowery and child friendly, yet
this is sort of ironic considering they are evil dolls- something children should
be scared about.
 However in this film, the characters have close ups, I plan to have the person
running in the forest, purely running, so their face is not seen, this will create
mystery and if needed, we can use the same character as the dolls.

6.  In this film opening, it shows the mystery, not
everything is explained and gaps are left open, for the
later film to explain to us.
 I chose this film opening to relate to our film because
the main concept of this is an evil doll. I have also
analysed the film opening of The Women In Black,
which is in another blog post on here. This can also be
related to my chosen film opening with the children
playing with toys. Although thought I shouldn't do the
same film twice and picked this one as well.