Film Genre Research - The Shining

The movie The Shining shows in the first two minutes of a the scenery of a lake and it tilts to the mountains. There is a long winding road with a bunch of trees that have only one car traveling on the road. This can be inferred that there is not a lot of people living out there or traveling there. It shows that this car is in the middle of the mountains alone. It then shows that a yellow car is more emphasized in the next scene that there is truly nothing but grass, trees, and mountains. It then goes to having the car driving next to the mountains which gives the audience that this a far drive and could be a potential rockfall. It keeps giving scenery and on the last part of the scene, the audience sees snowy mountains and a hotel near the top that blends into the mountain side which indicates that it is hard to find and a long to drive in the middle of the mountains where there is nothing else.

It starts off as an establishing shot of a lake. It then zooms to the middle of the lake. It then gives a canted angle to dodge the middle of a rock island in the middle of the lake. It keeps zooming. It then goes to an aerial shot of a yellow car driving through on a road in the middle of a dense forest on either side. It also gives canted angle to match up with the winding road. It then gives a long shot of the road when there is plains and the mountain is up ahead. This tells the audience that the person driving the car is heading toward the mountains. It then zooms when the car is driving next to a mountain. It zooms all the way that the audience is able to see the yellow car in more detail. It then zooms past the car to see the different mountains It goes back to an aerial shot of the car driving on a mountain side. It then gives a canted angle when the car disappears in the tunnel to make the audience feel that they narrowly miss from hitting the mountain. It then goes back to an aerial when the car comes out of the tunnel. It then goes to a long shot of the car continuing to drive. It goes to an aerial long-shot to emphasis the snow and that the car keeps going up to the mountain. It then pans to an shot of a building that matches the color of the mountain.

The editing techniques were cuts. There were longer takes for the whole opening. This makes it more suspenseful because it gives the audience more anxious because there must be a reason why the car is driving such a long way up in the mountains. The cuts were mostly when the scenery change to emphasis the progress of the car up the mountain.

The sound for the opening is all incidental music. The music starts off as intimidating and slow but the pace of the incidental music goes faster when the destination up the mountain gets closer. This shows that whatever up the mountain is something nerve whacking.

The opening for the shining is all on location because all the scenes were of nature and a yellow car driving up a mountain which can not be recorded in the studio. The lighting of the sun from the mountains gives the mountains a shady look because it looks like it is giving off fog. This in turn makes it more eerie to the audience.

The job titles that were used in The Shining is the actors names, featuring in The Shining, the executive producer, screenplay written by, produced and directed by, and based on the novel.

The movie cost to make was 19 million dollars. It made 47 million dollars in the United States. The Shining won fifteen awards and had then nominations.