The shining/ suspense

Today at media , the class was watching ‘The shining’, a horror thriller which was filmed at 1980. The film was directed by Stanley kubrick. In the film there is a lot of suspense created by the music, camera and the mise en scene. The camera uses different camera shots/angles/levels that looks scary and creepy because the camera shot in different angles and it like you are the character which is in the film. Example. In one of the scene were Danny is riding his bike around the hotel and the camera is just behind him in the floor level (which Danny is) and the shot gives the audience a feeling that something is going to jump up to Danny but it will be like something is going to jump up at us (the audience). In a lot of the scene’s the camera is tilted and this beings more tension to the film. The camera some times does not show the full place so it does being more tension init because the audience just see what the character see and I say this because if you were to get into a hotel with a killer in it you will not just look at half of the room you will look very were but by not showing the full place of where the character is it keeps it sample and it makes more tension. In this way the audience say to them self ‘oh my god, he is there look around’, to the character which is about to get killed. In the film a lot of the shots are taken from the back of the character which makes it look creepy. The shots are very still and there is not a lot of editing going on but the film is slow and by the slowness it creates suspense.

The music and the sounds creates the big part of suspense. In music plays when the characters are in danger and this makes more tension on the audience. The music plays in a lot of the scene and its all ways the same kind of music playing , like bass which is playing most of the time and then there are screaming and heart beats. The music gets louder and louder when some thing is about to happen or it just goes quiet that you can not even hear nothing and this just makes the audience worry that some thing is going to happen. Example , as jack, Danny and Wendy gets closer to the hotel the music gets louder and louder. In the music there are sharp noise as well as screaming going on. In the scene were Danny goes to the play room to play and the music is slow and not loud but there is a sharp squeaking noise playing and then the sharp noise goes louder and then when Danny looks back he sees some thing and just then from mid shot it get to extreme close up of his face really quickly and in the some time the music stops and then plays again. By doing these it creates a dramatic scene. An example of the music stops at a scene that there is danger is when the black man comes to the hotel to help them and see if they are fine just then jack jumps into the black man with his axe and kills him but in this scene the diegetic sounds are at a high volume.

There is a lot of props that creates suspense because the props that are used in the film are more of things to kill a human. Example Jack has a axe which he uses to try to kill he’s wife and son but actually kills the black man. Wendy which uses a knife and a bat to make Jack stay away from them and scare jack from him which does not work.

After passing the four mirrors outside the Gold Room, Jack sits at the bar and again is unable to escape his reflection due to mirrors behind the bar. So he covers his eyes and offers his soul for a drink. When he opens his eyes again the mirrors are cluttered with bottles of alcohol and his reflection has been replaced by Lloyd, the barman. The weird conversation that follows is basically a visual metaphor of Jack speaking to himself. They’re both wearing maroon coloured jackets and have a similar cheeky smirk. Once Jack gets into the swing of his dialogue the camera stays on him and we see nothing of the barman. This shows that jack does know this place before they moved because the barman looks he is old fashion ,which this is again creates suspense. The connection with the ghost was all presented at the beginning of the film were Danny talks to Tony with is like a ghost but you can not see him.