Characters - Conjuring 2

This is the main character from 'The Conjuring 2'. She is possessed with a 72 year old man who is trying to get her to "commit the ultimate sin". The 11 year old girl is wearing her pyjamas which portrays her innocence and vulnerability to the audience. This makes the audience feel bad for the young girl as she has no control over who she is. The protagonist has a long fringe with curls at the bottom of her short hair, suggesting again that she is very sweet and childlike. Her facial expressions suggest that she is very scared and confused, wondering what is going on in her bedroom. The girl almost seems lost which really makes the audience feel sad, but also worried if they if they were putting themselves in her shoes. The girls body language can also portray what she is thinking. In this image her shoulders are slumped. This makes her seem very submissive to the audience because she isn't standing up for herself. The director would have done this in order to make the audience feel compassion and empathy for the protagonist.

This is the antagonist from 'The Conjuring 2'. In the image on the left, the nun is in at the end of a long hallway. Her facial expression is very serious, showing little emotion in the image. Her body positioning is very relaxed, but leaves the audience on edge as horror movie stereotypes suggest the nun is scary so her stance is very creepy to the audience. On the right are two images from the same scene. The above image shows the reflection in the mirror of the lady trying to help the protagonist and the nun. Here we see a close up of the antagonist, scaring the audience more as the nun is very expressionless. In the below image on the right, we see the lady come face to face with the nun, creating a jump scare for the audience, The director uses an extreme close up of both the characters to show each of their emotions in great detail. We can tell that the lady is petrified of the nun and fearing her life. This scene is very dramatic for the audience as it is one uncut scene with lots of mystery involved, ending with a loud scream, frightening the audience.

If we look at the lady on the left of this image, we can see a great detail about what she is thinking just by her facial expressions and her body language. She has just seen seen the reflection of the nun in the mirror, turned around and nothing has been behind her. This image was then taken when the lady turns back around to look at the mirror and the nun is in the reflection behind her. The lady has a very shocked expression on her face, clearly showing the fear that she feels. Her body positioning indicates that she was surprised as her arms are bent at the elbows, showing she is very tense and nervous. This feeling is then passed onto the audience who feel the same as the character in this scene.