Movie Conventions research: The Conjuring 3

 

 This movie makes use of several editing conventions such as gradual focus, background focus, blur, straight cuts, and cross cuts. This film also makes great use of sound conventions such as negative space. Certain scenes have no non-digetic sound at all and little to no digetic sound including music or dialogue. This film also includes common horror movie conventions such as prop weapons such as knives, fake blood, and monster vocalizations. I greatly admire the sound design choice of this film. Instead of using sound and instruments to build suspense and tension. It is instead replaced with negative space, leaving the audience with eerie silence. creating an unsettling feeling not knowing when a scare will take place since there are no cues to indicate one. The costume design in this film is also very impressive. each costume felt real and made the character or monster of the scene feel more alive. This movie did make ill use of common horror movie dialogue and plot tropes. The dialogue was very boring and didn't do anything that would be considered unique in this genre. This movie failed to stand out from its previous installments due to this.