The Shining: Opening Scene

Camera Angles/Shots	· Camera tilts sideways and zooms in: suggesting someone is closing in · Aerial views (birds eye): as if there is a vulture watching and not leaving the audience alone (predator)and playing with their feelings and emotions (inconsistent) · Tracking shot: as if someone is following the audience (prey, this shot also suggests that someone is following the car. However, I have noticed that the camera does not always follows the care but sometimes the car is not shown in some scene suggesting that the camera has over taken the car. This suggests that the film has an unstable effect. · Establishing shot: showing Hotel from an aerial shot, this suggests that the Hotel is isolated and far away from civilisation
Sound	· Sombre and imposing music: scary and threatening · Faint sound of women screaming, as if this is a pre warning leading to the phase horror · String instrument and chanting, suggesting that something bad may occur with the repetition
Editing	· Slow paced editing: long journey, sense of normal atmosphere, calm but expected. This often leaves the audience wondering when the journey will end and what will happen · Fade cut: transition happens when camera begins to follow the car, introducing the car and showing different landscapes, also suggesting the different moods the character goes in throughout this movie · Cut: showing different changes in the landscape throughout the journey · Continuity editing
Mise En Scene	Landscape: · Sinister: quiet, dangerous, high mountains, small roads, only one car on the road suggesting that something might happen as they are alone · Miles away from civilisation · Wild unpredictable sense of going in to the unknown · Middle of nowhere showing they are trapped · Natural scene (more water than land) · Peaceful scene (traditional) land reflecting on water, turning to sinister Weather: · Landscape changes from lush, green to snowy and barren (grass unable to grow) · Suggesting that they travelled for a long time (distance) · Change of mood from happiness to growth to hostility (being hostile to someone, not smiling, stony manner) and coldness