'The Shining' analysis

 ‘The Shining’ analysis:

The opening sequence has a large amount of different shots. The majority of them have a long duration all with the sam camera work. The camera work throughout the opening sequence is air born. However, it is not steady giving the audience a sense of instability. The director has chosen to use a dutch angle in a few of the shots. What this does is it shows the audience an angle that is not level which makes the audience feel off balance as though something is not right which brings more attention to the car in this scene.

There are some elements of birds eye view which are isolating the character who is driving the car as it gives the audience a perspective that shows the car alienated away from any other sort of society as the car is seen driving in the middle of nowhere. This is presented in every single one of this shot in the opening scene. However the opening shot is the angle that establishes the location that the character is in. The opening shot consists of an airborne fly by which has random motion giving the viewer a perspective as where the character currently is as well as making them feel a sense of uncertainty with the unstable camera angles.