This is the opening few minutes to Conjuring 2. In the first 2 minutes there are many conventions to it being a horror film. The first convention we see is that the place is very dark to add the scary feel to it. It makes us feel more intense and head in hands scary because you know a jump scare will happen. The next convention is the jump scare a jump scare is always in horror movies and 99% of the time scares us. In this horror movie there is murder this is mostly in horror movies just to make it that more scary.
Some key questions we ask from the opening scene are who is this family that have been killed? Why are they trying to imagine this? Who will be the scary villain? We ask these questions to watch the rest of the movie and know what happens. We also find out some information for example we now know that there was a family that lived there and were murdered. Another thing we find out is this woman must be the main character so who is she? This connotes to the horror genre as we usually don't get the back story of the main character straight away its usually spread throughout the movie. The mise-en-scene is used really well as we see a scary house this connotes to scary genre as there is usually a scary place. Another mise-en-scene used well is how in her eyes shes not doing anything with a pretend shotgun in her hand but when she looks in the mirror shes a man with an actual gun, this adds effect as it makes it much more scary and makes us feel really intense about her.
The sound is used really well as there is scary non-diegetic sound while she walks up the stairs and when she goes to a room the sound goes high pitch and ends. This adds effect because it makes it much more scary when the jump scare happens.
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