The opening scene from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ is filled
with effective uses of editing, camera angles and sound, all to make the opening
scene captivating and interesting to watch.
Here
is the list of camera angles with their shots, and what they can tell us about
the opening scene to keep it effective.


This shot is a Crossfade; The camera begins to curve to the
right then crossfades to a high aerial shot tracking a lone car traveling a
thin "snake like" road through a

forest, anticipating the high overviews we will later have of the maze at the Overlook Hotel. The curve of the canyon wall and the lake is echoed in the curve of the road as it fades in and the Rorschach of the landscape mirrored in the lake subsides. The sound stays the same, and we still don’t have a clear view of what is happening.

The final shot is of the hotel, Overlook hotel. This is when
the music dims down and the scene relaxes to an end and after the traumatic
sounds you are treated to one of few sane moments.
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