Technical Essay
Director: Kubrick, Stanley
Movie: The Shining
Sources: “Understanding Movies”
For my technical essay I am going to talk about the movie "The Shining". I will explore in
this essay I am going to set to prove that Stanley Kubrick is trying to prove that violence can
happen when you are lefted alone and isolated. I use a screen from 1:43:44 to 1:53:08 to prove
this point. This scene is about when Wendy looks though Jacks work and is scared though the
whole scene and and ends up knocking him out and trapping him in a storage room. I will use
techniques such as Camera angles, Lighting and sound. This movie users all of this elements
really well.
The Shining is a movie that was made in 1980 based on a book by Stephen King. The
Shining is about a family of 3 that heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and
spiritual presence influence the main character Jack into violence acts, while his psychic son
Danny sees horrific forbidding from the past and the future.
For my first argument I will talk about is Lighting of this scene. This scene is lit every
dark in the beginning and the room they are in is very dark.When they are in the room with
Jack's typewriter, the room is very dark with a light on the typewriter. This is so they make you
focus on the typewriter. When Jack enters the the room , a lot of natural light (sunlight)enters
the room. Light can really add a element to your scene . In this scene kubrick did a lot to add to
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... of sound effects in primarily atmosphere (background noises) . They can
also be precise sources of meaning in film." Kubrick did a great job in this scene driving home
the point why sound can make or break a scene, he added the right kind of background music
and right sound effects to make this scene great.
So in concussion, Kubrick did a really good job in the shining. He proved that violence
can happen when you are lefted alone and isolated. He showed this though the scene in the
Shining. He used techies such as Camera angles, lighting and sound. He proved that main
character Jack lead him to become more violence and crazy when he was isolated. This was a
great film to watch and truly is one of Kubrick finest film ever.
Violence is often something people complain about to others. When there is an argument it may come to violence. Movies are causing people to become violent because when heroes in movies use violence to beat up the villains, this shows children violence is okay. The article claims that filmmakers should be blamed by putting violence in their movies. Therefore it is up to the parents to watch over their kids. But in a counter argument it claims that violence in music is okay and that the parents should know their kid’s tolerance to violent scenes.
In any film, lighting and colour are very important, as film is mainly a visual form of media. In film A (By Dustin Hoffmann), the colours are very naturalistic. They make use of pastel colours and scenic shots. It has a sort of fantasy world quality.
The nature of time and history in The Shining is left wholly ambiguous, often disrupted both in the contents of the movie itself and its manner of framing. The movie is framed in different segments, a black scene interrupting the story by marking off time. It starts by counting through months (“September”) to hours (“Two Hours”), thus disrupting and distorting the passage of time for the viewer (“Remembrance of Things Forgotten” 208-209). The history of the hotel provides the supernatural elements. Dick Hallorann, the head chef of the Overlook, explains the Shining (Supernatural visions and elements of the hotel) that way: “When something happens, it leaves a trace of itself behind.” (The Shining 33:00). The specific visions of the past primarily consist of the daughters murdered by an earlier caretaker, a dead woman in the bathtub of Room 237, and the 1920s party that Jack stumbles upon. It’s at the party that Jack meets the murderous earlier caretaker himself, a man named Delbert Grady. He is another anachronism in the party, a man who during the hotel in the winter month and couldn't go to the party,
In his classic horror film, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick utilizes many different elements of editing to create unique and terrifying scenes. Kubrick relies on editing to assist in the overall terrifying and horrifying feel created in the movie. Editing in the movie creates many different effects, but the most notable effects created add to the continuity of the film as well as the sense of fear and terror.
...lm. With the director’s use of special effects, this proves that he had an artistic way of showing the film, as well as his use of ambiguous scenes and sequences that were provided in the film. By making it a classical cinema film, the Kubrick did a good job in proving the realism of space and all, as well as using the film order to make the movie in order. By making the film both art and classical cinema, this just makes the movie even better and the director more smarter for being able to do this in one movie.
The film begins with aerial camera shots taken from a helicopter that reveal the long secluded path to the Overlook Hotel. Kubrick did this to give a peaceful and calming feeling that misleads the audience about what is soon to be the winter home for the Torrance family. As the scenery changes, the different landscapes foreshadow the end of the film. The aerial shots make the forest look like the hedge maze next to the hotel, which is a huge part of the plot and where Jack ends up at the end. The idea of a maze is crucial to the plot, as well as the confusion and feeling of being lost that “The Shini...
...successful collaboration of sound, colour, camera positioning and lighting are instrumental in portraying these themes. The techniques used heighten the suspense, drama and mood of each scene and enhance the film in order to convey to the spectator the intended messages.
of light being the main focus in this work. Shadow also plays a large part in the
Jack Torrance (Major)-A writer and former teacher who suffers from alcohol abuse and becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel for the winter. Determined to make amends, he quits drinking and tries to finish his novel while working at the hotel. However, Jack slowly falls under the hotel’s influence and is constantly plagued by past mistakes and loses control.
generate moods, and have great psychological affect. This is just as true for the very first series of shots for the film, and perhaps more important since these first shots will give the audience the initial feeling of the film, and set a tone for the picture. The first shot is highly dramatic in its lighting method, and the audience is drawn in immediately to one single detail. A man begins revealing the details of a tragic incident that befell his daughter. We don’t see who he is talking to. There is a spotlight directly above the man, and this is pretty much 95% of the light used. This really lights up the top of his head, which is bald, but there is no hot spot or reflective element which is good because reflection here would be aesthetically displeasing. The lighting causes dark areas under the man’s eyes, which emphasize the passion and eventually the hatred of what he is talking about. The scene is lit so that the background is completely black, so that the only thing we can see is the man. Even though this is logically unrealistic, the stylistic decision to light in this manner is warranted, since this or any other good film draws heavily upon our expectations and imagination to convey a message or meaning. We as audience accept the unrealistic elements, if they assist in making the story ...
Stephen King’s book, The Shining, and Stanley Kubrick’s film have many differences and similarities. Both the movie and the book is centered around a family of three. The dad, John Torrence, the mom, Wendy Torrence, and the child, Danny Torrence who have a rough time at Overlook hotel. While they are very similar, Stephen King’s book, The Shining, and Stanley Kubrick’s film show the many small and large differences. Stanley takes a different route in his interpretation of Stephen’s story with the main characters’ personalities and how the Overlook hotel has taken a toll on them.
Sound is what brings movies to life, but, not many viewers really notice. A film can be shot with mediocre quality, but, can be intriguing if it has the most effective foley, sound effects, underscore, etc. Sound in movies band together and unfold the meaning of the scenes. When actors are speaking, the dialogue can bring emotion to the audience, or, it can be used as the ambient sound. Music is one of the main things to have when filmmaking. The use of Claudia Gorbman’s Seven Principles of Composition, Mixing and Editing in Classical Film gives audiences a perspective of sound, and, how it can have an impact on them.
In addition, the elements of lighting can be a supplement to a visual story with alluring amount of light and darkness. Firstly, light versus dark is a complex theme in the film. It is looking at terms of the film’s images with use of lighting, day and night, and use of color. Second, is the way the film examines the dark recesses of the human mind and its dimensions of evil. For example, in one scene in the film, Marion Crane gets to know Norman Bates a little too well. Norman states, “Well a boy’s best friend is his mother”. There is an alluring shadow behind Norman Bates, as a shadow is not seen from Crane. It was implied in the film that Bates was deranged and had multiple personal...
I chose this scene for its attention to detail and captivating visual aesthetic. It ...
Violence has been prominent in film for many years and has not subsided to say the least. There are obvious negative effects on children who view violent films, varying from petty theft to murder and rape. Children should be taught to not watch violent films and parents should discuss with their children the dangers of watching violent films.