Analysis of the Opening and Closing Scene (Trainspotting)

The Conjuring 2 Ending Scene (How is Meaning Created?)

Mise-en-scene

The performance of Ed and Lorraine Warren in the final scene is telling of how serious the situation had gotten despite all of the controversy and disbelief they had shown for the infamous Enfield haunting. Hours before they were in disbelief that anything was even going on in the house and were moments away from leaving. The brave, dramatic scene is performed with a high intensity, for instance the way she screams at Valak during the exorcism, which isn't seen that much through the film so its the main climax that the audience had been waiting for.  

During the clip the lack of lighting makes the what was normal family home seem a lot more sinister, this is done through the use of low key lighting and theres a blue feeling to the light which adds to the coldness of the scene, it gives off the typical supernatural feeling that the film pushes for throughout. As well as this the scene is set at night, and night has connotations of evil and the thought that somethings there. This is ironic because children are usually more scared or frightened of things in the dark or the dark in general and in this film the child herself is the thing thats lurking in the dark and the being thats evil. However there's one strike of lightening in the scene which emphasises the danger thats going on with the house.
The setting in the Conjuring 2 is important due to how average and normal the house and the people living in the house are. The setting is the bedroom of the girl possessed, before hand it had her and her sisters bed and a plethora of toys scattered along the floor however now its completely destroyed with crosses pinned up against the wall due to how evil she has become and how the what was fairly normal houses is the now the prime spot for a dark, sinister exorcism.
One character in the last scene has a very interesting costume and thats Valak, the poltergeist. Valak is dressed as a nun and throughout the film attacks a child, this is interesting because nuns are often stereotyped of being very harsh and highly religious so the fact a nun is a supernatural evil being contradicts the stereotype of them being very religious however at the time of The Enfield Haunting in the late 1970's, the haunting the film is based off, a lot of children who went to Catholic schools especially were often treated harshly by teachers who were nuns.  

Cinematography 

The camera movement throughout the last scene in The Conjuring 2 consists of a lot of tracking shots especially of both Lorraine and Ed as they make their way through the house and into the bedroom and this is done so the audience feel like they're almost there, especially when the tracking shot follows both characters step by step. At the very end of the scene the camera very smartly imitates the fall of the girl by tracking up and down the spiked tree, this is done to make the audience think she's actually going to plummet onto the tree, regardless if she does or not, it almost teases the audience.
In the scene the camera angles are mostly over the shoulder angles, especially of Lorraine when she's trekking through the house, the camera is stuck to her shoulder and this gives the audience the feeling that they're there right behind her. It's really good at showing her point of view. Linking back to the spiked tree the camera starts off with a high angle view of the tree which makes it look like such a far fall and the camera tracks down and shows a low angle shot which shows how imposing the fall is and the consequences the fall would have on both Ed and the child. This again is done to tantalise the audience with what the fall would look like if they were to fall.

Editing

Editing has been used to continue the narrative due to the high paced cuts throughout the scene. The scene is very intense and the cuts compliment this very well. This is done to make the scene come across as a lot more crucial and very frantic.

The spatial understanding in the clip is done through the cut of Lorraine coming into the room with Ed and you can clearly see that they're within touching distance but the again so far away. The passage of time is shown through the cuts of Lorraine running through the house and Ed stuck in peril upstairs.

Sound

In the final scene, there's a lot of diegetic and non-diegetic sound going on. For example the non-diegetic music is deep and almost ghostly like, it links very well with the paranormal things going on in the scene like the lightening striking the tree and like Lorraine condemning Valak. The music adds to the realism because the situation is very intense and serious and the music elevates this as it is very ghoulish and paranormal. Apart of diegetic sound that is used very well is rain, the rain is pouring down and you can hear it in the background and the sound of the rain gives a proper sense of realism as the atmosphere the films trying to create wouldn't be the same if you didn't know and couldn't hear the rain thundering down. Although it's stereotypical of a horror film to have rain pouring outside, The Conjuring does this to further intensify the horrible situation going on. The sound used is all parallel, the music is deep and dark which represents the paranormality of the scene and diegetic sound like the rain and the lightening are very in nature with whats going in as well due to The Conjuring 2 being a horror film. Finally the spoken content is delivered in a way any person would if they was in that situation, both Ed and Lorraine are frantically screaming with a shiver and a shake in their voice, this makes the film much more real as any normal person would in that situation and it wouldn't have near enough the same effect if they just casually talked through what was happening.