The Shining Opening Sequence
Opening sequences are a way of showing and demonstrating perhaps the main characters and setting. Not giving everything away. And nothing crucial.
Camera Shots
- Birds eye shot
- Tracking shots shows the long journey
- Constant cuts
- Cuts close to the car, creates suspense, but then pulls away again
Sound
- Extremely loud 'trombone/trumpet' music.
- Sound as if raindrops
- Non-diegetic sound effects. Made to sound real (screaming electric, voices, wailing)
- No diegetic sound
Mise En Scene
- Woods symbolize secrets/mystery
- Lake/street/woodlands
- Present isolation
- Climbing- further and further from civilisation
- Journey to where the film is set
- Inside the car- protagonists
- Reaches a hotel. First inhabited place. Escape from civilisation.
- Snow melting, shows spring.
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