The Conjouring 2
At the beginning of the opening scene you can see a very dark setting using low key lighting, already giving it a eary feeling along with the non-diegetic music in the background, this is also where you are first shown a female character. Who is the main focus through out the clip. The women is shown in a long shot before the camera zooms in on her. This could represent that whatever/whoever is down in the basement with her has drawn all its attention to her. The camera then follows her from a behind angle, this could be showing how she is being followed by a non-visible being (spirit) or showing us what she sees through her eyes. As you see her walking forward different religious objects are being shown in the scene such as; crosses, candles and statues of Christ. This gives the idea of some sort of religious relations with the film, trying to het rid of evil spirits. Which would therefor fit in with the horror genre.
Further into the scene as the women is walking forward, still being tracked from a behind angle, you then see a young boy run out from behind a sheet laughing, however the laughter does not seem to be coming from the boy as it echoes through the room suggesting how the boy may not be real. This creates tension as he comes from no where startling you as you watch. From the women's movements you can see she is frightened by what Is happening as you can hear diegetic sounds of her heavy breathing, also by the way she is looking around with very wide sharp eyes. As she paces around in circles looking for the young boy he then reappears along with other children. The children standing there have blood stains on their clothes, showing how they aren't actually alive, this creates a scary atmosphere in the scene as it makes you think something else it about to happen, as the scene is getting more tense as it goes on.
In the next part of the scene the women and dead children are shown in a medium long shot. The non-diegetic music in the background in becoming much more faster and high pitched, this creates tension as it has you on the edge waiting for something scary to happen. The children shown in the shot are all lined up, looking at the women but then all in sync turn their heads quickly staring in the same direction. This could suggest that the children are being controlled by something much more sinister than them and they look to it as their master. Or this could be the children warning the women of what is really dangerous, to try and prevent what happened to them from happening to her. 
You then see the women uncover the mirror that the children were staring at. The non-diegetic music in the background almost disappears, suggesting that the evil is no longer around her relieving tension that had been built up. But then in a medium long shot you see a very dark figure start to appear walking behind the women. At this point the non-diegetic music is now being bought back in using very fast high sounds, making you expect something bad to happen very soon. The camera angle moves back and fourth between the mirror and behind the women. As the women can only see the figure in the mirror suggests that it is most likely a spirit, a sinister spirit more likely as it is dressed in dark clothing, portraying the idea of death.
The women's breathing becomes much more heavier by this point, when the women turns back round a close up is shown of the dark figure, giving a shocking effect as you aren't really expecting it. By then the spirit then begins to strangle the women links back to the children and portraying how it has been the cause of their deaths and they are the lives she has taken so far. By the demon trying to kill her could suggest that this is something the women try's to defeat. As she stays there and doesn't run away suggest that she could be used to seeing things such as these, maybe that it is her lifestyle that she deals with demonic spirits, which foreshadows the films storyline.
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