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Saturday, 28 September 2013

The Shining: Opening sequence Analysis

The Shining
 
 
I studied the film 'The Shining' and from a first preview of the credits, you do not see any characters, just a car with a person driving it. The camera shooting this is high up in a helicopter; this gave the feeling that someone/something was following this cars movement, a sense of foreboding. There is also the fantastic eerie, horror background music which automatically tells the audience it is a horror and  that something terribly bad was going to take place. The start of the film is on a mountain side, that looks desolate and no other people are around. The car looks like its heading to somewhere where the film is set and at the end of the credits the camera gets to a sort of resort.

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