Auteur Study - James WanBy Guedar

James Wan

James Wan was born on February 26, 1977 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. He is a writer and director and most known for Saw which was released in 2004, Insidious: Chapter 2 and The Conjuring which were both released in 2013

Insidious: chapter 2 - Analyse their use of colour/framing/shot types/angles/movement, pace of titles/editing, how characters/place/time are introduced. How do they utilise music and sound?

One of the films that wan has directed is insidious : chapter 2. The opening of insidious : chapter we are introduced to a non –diagetic sound of melodic and manor keys . The purpose of the non-diagetic sound was so audience gets the sense that its a valuable environment. The establishing medium shot shows the protagonist, moving the cretins away from the window, so that she could see outside. The impression the audiences get as she pulled the cretins away was that she seemed curious to know what was happening outside. This creates an enigma code as the audiences want to know hat she thought was outside.

we have a long shot of a houses, which establish were the film will be taking place.Furthermore diagetic sound fades in, when something mysterious has happened e.g.

when the buggy suddenly begins to move on its own. Which creates the effect to the audience that we are now getting to the part of the opening were thriller codes and conventions are presented by mysterious and weird things happening.

The way time is introduced is that THE AUDIENCE KNOWS …

The Conjuring

Saw III