Opening Title Sequence Of The Shining By Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick first became an inspired filmer when he got given a camera for his 13th Birthday and at the age of 17 he was offered a job as an apprentice photographer. Kubrick planned to move into the film, and in 1950 he spent all his savings making a documentary.   All of Kubrick's films from the mid-1950s onward, except The Shining, were nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes, or BAFTAs.The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

The credits that have been used are very simple to make the audience focus on the images and the music. The car in always in focus in the shots but we only get one shot of the car close up. The other shots are extreme long shots, away from the vehicle; this highlights how big the area is. The difference between the tiny car and the huge landscape around it highlights how there may be a sense of danger or isolation. In the first shot we see of the car, the camera is overhead as the car moves along the winding road in the middle of nowhere. This involves the audience. This then produces a view of just the car, forest and a road which makes the car look enclosed like it is trapped. The music is very dramatic which makes the audience feel tension and think that something is about to happen. I learn that the car is driving in the middle of nowhere to a hotel up in the mountains which portrays a sense of isolation.