The ghost director skillfully used the 4-point shooting technique to make a classic horror film, "The Conjuring 2" won the North American box office champion in one fell swoop

It has been almost a year since The Conjuring 2, the dark horse at the box office of North American films in 2016, was adapted from real events and became another classic in the hands of talented director Wen Ziren. Today, when all kinds of scary tricks in horror films for nearly a hundred years are about to be played, "The Conjuring 2" can still cause exclamations from the audience, and even caused an Indian audience to have a heart attack and death while watching the movie. It can be seen that The genius director has what a superb scary art.

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a horror atmosphere is naturally inseparable from the blessing of photography , different perspectives, light, and techniques can bring "amazing" effects.

1. Alternating scenes, mobilizing the audience's heart to change

Scenography is the most basic creative method of film. By changing the distance between the camera and the subject, it presents a dynamic visual range and distributes the attention of the audience. At the beginning of The Conjuring 2, Rowling and Ed are asked to go to London to help exorcise the Hudsons. With the introduction of the narrator, the camera is gradually pushed from close-up to close-up, the audience's attention is more focused on the character's face, and the changes in the character's emotions can be more intuitively felt. In addition, the process of the camera's gradual approach is also the process of the audience's visual and psychological forced approach, and the characters' emotions and feelings are amplified by the camera's scheduling, creating a sense of depression and tension.

2. Misaligned composition, presenting a thrilling atmosphere

The importance of composition to the picture is self-evident, and for horror films, the importance of composition seems to be even more prominent. The suspenseful and thrilling plot of the horror film, combined with the well-arranged unbalanced composition, further enhances the atmosphere of the film and achieves the emotional resonance between the audience and the characters. The rainy night scene in the picture below adopts the technique of top shooting. The long and narrow corridor becomes a closed space due to the change of perspective. The slanted composition deepens the sense of unease, and the atmosphere of the rainy night is rendered. Everything indicates the advent of a thrilling scene.

3. Real shooting, the contrast is more terrifying

Horror movies are not all parts that make people adrenaline rushing. It is precisely because of the comparison of daily life scenes that the horror part is even more foiled. In the movie, the mother tearing things is shot by hand. The slight shaking of the hand-held shot shows the conflict between mother and daughter. The slow rhythm of the long shot is in line with real life, showing the calm before the storm, and truly reproducing life. The appearance of the next supernatural scene paved the way.

4. Weird editing, even more powerful

The scene where the youngest daughter wakes up from her sleep and floats to the ceiling and then crosses back to the floor of the room is impressive, but this is not entirely done by post-production special effects. We can clearly see in the live shooting video that the so-called suspended scene is a blinding method completed by reference objects such as all upside-down furniture. Traversing back to the floor was actually just a shot of a young actor getting up from the ground, and editing was used to subtly combine the two in the later stage. In fact, a long time ago, some netizens recreated the scene of Sadako crawling out of the TV in the classic horror film "Midnight Bell", and only needed to shoot the scene of the TV and the scene of the actor crawling out of the TV-sized cardboard box , and then rely on the great late can be completed.

The reason why horror movies are scary is to show the things we usually imagine and our psychological state "real" in front of us, seize the imagination, and express them in a visible way through shooting techniques to make our fears more vivid. Traces can be followed, so as to achieve strong special effects of *** psychology, which is naturally terrifying.

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