Image Courtesy of The Shining Synopsis

Social Issues/Concerns:

Lighting:

• Bright, daytime (complete opposite of traditional dark films, perhaps trying to create a new fear that horror can occur in complete daylight as well).
• Light reflecting off the snow in the scenes, creates an awkward lighting
• Night scene: offers an eerie feeling in its viewer as they are used to the daylight so prominently used in the film.
  

Camera Angles:

• Free flowing
• Point of View (hides facial expressions and allows audience to be put in someone else's shoes).
• Tracking Shots (through the maze: creates a suspenseful scene as we don't know what to expect next).
• Close-ups (for expression)

Audio:

• Introductory music identical to closing music: eerie and loud, with a 1940's feel
  Non-diagetic

Narrative:

• Ending: Open-ended (The ending implies that Jack was actually either a reincarnation of a man who used to work at the hotel, or a ghost…)
  

 

Kristina Gold
Communications Studies & Psychology Student