The ConjuringFilm analysis helping our opening ideas.

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.

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.

CameraThe 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.

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.

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.