During the interview, when it ended there was a fade away into the next scene with the woman in the house. This editing was also seen during some of the hitchcock films. There was a very fast paced zoom into his face and there was a slow tracking into his face. The tracking is used again to get close to the boys face and when this happens the music starts to come in and all the sound around the boy is cut and all you can hear is the music. Fading is used so much to cut the scenes, one scene fades into another. There is text that comes up on the screen to break up the the scenes and tell the audience what is happening. The fade though shout to the man suggests that the man is also walking though his own maze or that he is trapped, psychologically trapped because he is throwing the ball. When he then looks over the maze as they are walking though it this suggests that he is a 'god' figure and he has power over his family. Shot reverse shot is used for conversation between the bartender and Jack this is the first time that we have really seen the shot reverse shot. The shot where johnny was in the bar, the woman comes running in to tell him about the 'crazy' lady and then the bar has gone and the bartender is not there, it was all in jacks imagination. Parallel editing is used during the scene in the bathroom to show the boy and what he is thinking. Also eye-line match was used because they both are looking straight at the camera. Shot reverse shot is used, and a lot of tracking shots give the effect that the audience is following or walking along with the character in the film. Parallel editing is used again to show the boy is thinking at what they are saying and he knows what is happening, this and the combination of the music, is starting to build up the tension of the film. There is a shot where it breaks the 180 degree rule, and skips from side to side this is really disorientating for the audience. Eye-line match used when the woman is looking at his work, the scene gets more and more tense the music building up, she flicks through the pages faster and faster. The man walks past the elevator that pours out with blood earlier in the film, this made the audience gasp so it could be considered to be a significant scene. Parallel editing is used towards the end of the film to show the boy in the maze with Jack and the woman running around the house are happening at the same time, there all trying to escape, and its all happening at the same time.
Shot types
The shot types of the opening scene are all a birds eye view of a car while the credits roll up the screen, the car gets higher and higher into the mountain and the car gets to a house. The music cuts and there is man walking with a single tracking shot used to follow his movements, like the audience is following him and walking along-side him. Shot reverse shot is used at the start of the film to show the conversation in the interview. The camera is always on a 'level' when the boy is involved. Shot reverse shot is used for the key scene conversation between the boy and the man that mentions 'shining' the title of the film, and the term 'shining' means that you can read peoples minds. There is a tracking shot that shows the boy on his trike. When the boy and the woman are in the maze, the camera has no cuts and it tracks away from them and gives the audience the perspective that something is coming, or something is happening. The shot of the boy on his trike again while the camera follows him through the scene and when he goes around the corner it makes the audience scared because of what he might see, and then all of a sudden he comes to a stop and see's the room 237, and then he walks to the door and there is a sudden picture if the two girls he keeps seeing. Point of view shot used where the boy is staring at the girls. The shot when the boy is on his fathers lap, is a continues shot. This gives the effect that the scene is tense, Kubrick could have used a shot reverse shot to show this conversation. There is a shot where the man is staring at his wife and the boy, and then she starts shouting and he can't talk, the music gets really tense and his facial expressions are incredible. The amazing shot where he stares right at the camera "hello Lloyd" and the laugh looking straight at the camera like it is he is talking to the audience, and the audience is this so called Lloyd. There was an amazing tracking shot used to get close to the mans face that is in bed, and the screeching noise is almost unbareable for the audience. Point of view tracking shot is used to show the conversation between Jack and Wendy. There is a shot of Jack, looking up at him and then you can see from his face that he is lying, and really he just wants to get out, the effect of this shot shows that he is in charge, this is an extremely unusual angle to use. The shot exentricates his craziness. There is a tracking shot following Jack. The tracking shot is used again when he is running through the maze, the new piece of equipment that Kubrick had.
Mise en scene
Symbolism - Symbolism is clearly shown with the scene of the lift where the blood comes down the elevator and washes through the hall, this is a very impressionist way, to show there was murder and awful things that happened at the hotel. This is also shown with the quick edit and the picture of the two girls. Again the girls are shown and were staring at the girls. The boy has a small psychic ability, and he uses the friend to help control this, he already senses that something is wrong at the hotel. The colour red in the bathroom is all over the walls this could represent blood, it was said that kubrick used all primary colours. The man is infront of a window which makes him more like a shadow, this gives the impression that he is a dark mysterious person, and something is going to happen.
Iconography - Some of the shots have a symmetrical feel, this could be because he has a balanced mind. The grander of the rooms, the man looks really small and lonely, maybe the isolation of himself causes him to become mentally disturbed. The blood up the wall and the girls that were dead on the floor gives the audience a huge amount of shock, as it was unexpected. Everything in the shot is symmetrical, when the boy is playing on the rug and the ball rolls right down the middle of him, and the shot from behind him when he looks down the corridor he is centered right in the middle.
Music
The music of the opening tells a narrative like we have seen in the Alfred Hitchcock films, the deep noise and slowly getting louder, faster and closer together, until it is continuous. The music of the opening scene starts to get more mysterious and makes the audience start to wonder what is going to happen. The music gets really loud again when the man is driving the car though the hills towards his new job, and another fade away has been used to cut the shot and move into the new scene. The narrative is being shown though the music, this was seen during Hitchcock films, we know that the small boy is a key character throughout because of the music when the boy is on screen. The non-digetic sound is used when the boy is on his trike, this shows the audience that something is going to happen but it doesn't, this could show that something might happen next time. The loud banging when the camera shows the type writer makes the audience think that something is happening when it tracks out it is only the man throwing a tennis-ball. Sudden loud sound when he was writing and then when he pulled the paper off the music stopped and he spoke. When the boy is staring at the girls down the corridor, the music is telling the audience what he is thinking, like when they say "come and play with us" and the music that goes along with that there is a loud crash and this tells the audience that the boy is thinking 'no'. The music is extremely loud and high pitched it gets so loud and and the audience want it to stop like Alfred Hitchcock used during 'birds'. The loud screeching music when the tracking was going into the man in the bedroom and the sound is horrible and so loud. When the man is with the woman in the bathroom, there is a heart beating sound, this starts to get faster as he realises what he's doing and when he see's the woman as she is old and dead the music gets loud and tells the narrative again and tells the audience what is happening. The sharp sounds in the music happen when something happens in the action, like hitting the fist down on the table and there is a bang in the music.
