The Shining scene 1 anaylsis

This scene starts with a close up on Danny’s face and then zooms out into a mid shot to show the audience that nothing out of the ordinary is going on. This is just setting the scene of what Danny is doing so the audience can understand. While the camera is zooming out the audience is shown that Danny is playing darts, while watching this I didn’t feel scared or worried about Danny it seemed pretty normal but then I noticed that the darts are red. The connotations of red are danger, blood, love etc. So this was telling us the audience to maybe look out for anything that could be a danger to Danny. Also while this scene is going on there is some non-diegetic music playing in the background, it is horrible music because it is quite screechy and annoying and it make me cringe when it got louder. Once the camera has zoomed out into a mid shot Danny has thrown his last dart and he walks over to the dart board as he is doing this the camera pans so it make the audience feel more involved because you are going along with him also this happens when the camera tilts when Danny stands on the chair to reach for the darts. Danny takes two darts off the dart board and turns around then the camera quickly zooms into a close up of Danny’s face to show his emotion and to tell the audience something weird is happening. This made me worry about Danny because you couldn’t see what he could, my vision was restricted and I was scared of the unknown. This tension I felt was created by the camera lingering on Danny’s face for a long time. The non- diegetic music then becomes a lot lower in pitch and made me feel drained almost like my balance was off because the music is so horrid it hurt my ears. Then it cuts to a point of view shot to show the audience what Danny was looking at and it was two sinister looking little girls, this is a convention of the horror genre use to scare the audience. This just made me confused and a bit uneasy because they looked normal just a little pale but the way they were standing was a bit weird. The dresses they are wearing show that maybe they are not from that time because they were old fashioned and also they were blue, the connotation of blue is sadness, maybe something sad had happened to them. The dresses are also the same suggesting that maybe they are twins. Then there is a shot reverse shot to show Danny’s reaction to this. Then is cuts back to the little girls and they look at each other and they walk away in an ordered fashion clockwise around each other. This made added to my uncomfortable feeling about them. This whole scene is set in high key lighting showing the audience that it is set in the day time but also nothing really bad is going to happen at this point. Then it cuts to Danny’s family being shown around. I noticed that the man showing them around and Wendy are on the right side and Jack is on the left this told me that maybe I should watch out for him because he isn’t on the same side as his wife. This scene is shot with a backwards tracking shot, this get the audience involved with the narrative because they are moving along with it. There is no non-diegetic music in this scene because the audience needs to focus on what is being said. When they are walking the man says goodbye to some lady in the background, as she is walking with her bags she lifts a red bag up so it looks to the audience like it is touching jack and showing up that he is the danger in this film and to watch out for him. Everyone is leaving the hotel and the man is saying that no other room is heated in the winter this tells the audience that they will be the only people in the hotel at that time which is another convention of the horror genre, being in an isolated area.