Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Monday, 10 December 2012
The Shining Opening Analysis
I am going to analyse the opening three minutes of Stephen King's the shinning, one of the most simplistic horrifying opening to one of the most infamous horror film. Dream of the Witches' Sabbath" by Berlioz starts from the very beginning as the camera is seemingly air born as it is drawn towards an island, the island gets closer and the camera angles to a diagonal before giving an aerial shot of a car driving through a road surrounded by tall tries like little arrows with dramatic shadowing. Watching the opening especially with the disturbing but beautiful music gives you the feeling of some sort of ghostly presence, the camera angle for me made me feel like a bird soaring above and following this cars journey. The car carries on with its journey with beautiful shots fading in and out that without the music could easily be mistaken for a nature documentary. The titles fade up and off the screen relatively quickly in simple blue font; THE SHINNING doesn’t appear on the screen for any longer than the others and in this respect seems more like the ending titles than the opening. Two minutes in the car disappears under a rocky tunnel and the viewer is feeling uneasy and then it’s there in the distance the viewer’s following it along its journey. Almost hypnotic the opening immediately draws the viewer in to a feeling of great unease. Finally at 2; 50 the car seem to be arriving to its destination, little house appear in the snowy mountains, the first human habitation seen so far.
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Moodboard
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| I tipexed silhouettes of characters from our narrative onto scenes i could imagine being in our film, i also found images of actress/actors that i thought would be perfect for the roles in our film. It has not yet been decided by i envisage the protagonists as being a young girl and boy, a pre-pubesant love story, a somewhat sinister Moonrise Kingdom. |
Saturday, 1 December 2012
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