"The shinning"

The shinning- camera angles

The Shining is a 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. Kubrick co-wrote the screenplay with novelist Diane Johnson. The film stars Jack Nicholson as tormented writer Jack Torrance, Shelley Duvall as his wife, Wendy, and Danny Lloyd as their son, Danny.
The film tells the story of a writer, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), who accepts the job of the winter caretaker at a hotel which always gets snowed in during the winter. While his family looks around the hotel during closing day, the psychic hotel chef discovers the psychic abilities of Jack's son Danny, and Danny's ability to detect ghostly presences in the hotel. In the chef's family, this ability is called "shining". When the hotel becomes snowbound, Jack Torrance is driven mad by the ghosts in the hotel, and he tries to murder his wife and son.

I have decided to look at the camera angles from the opening of the shinning, i found that with in the opening scene there was a lot of establishing shots, and birds eye view shots. This showed me as a view that the film was going to be set in the middle of no where, i knew this from all the trees and forest surrounding, i also noticed that all the cars were heading in the opposite direction to the way the car that the camera was following was going. This also tells me that there isn’t going to be a lot of people at the destination that the car is heading to. There want any other houses near by or towns or anything with in the opening sequence all of this gave me as the viewer a sense of loneliness and seclusion. There to feeling is what is need to build up tension as a view. I have got all of these thoughts and ideas from the camera angles and the way it has been filmed.