The Shining CaseEssay Preview: The Shining CaseReport this essayWhen comparing the infamous Stanley Kubricks 1980 film, The Shining, to a modern 2011 horror film called Paranormal Activity 3 it was easy to see the overwhelming differences from one film to the other. Not only was there a huge gap in time between the movies, but a very obvious and distinct difference in their styles. Although both films do fall under the horror category, the execution of the directors approaches at using light, sound, and the camera to scare the audience were remarkably different.
In Stanley Kubricks, The Shining, the method of story telling is more extreme. The story, with the help of the actors is somewhat dramatic and theatrical. There is a seemingly drastic sound and lighting approach to accompany the sometimes blunt and direct shots (like that of jack freezing to death). The simplicity of a shot like this with the right lighting and sound makes it far more disturbing to the audience. Kubrick was known for his abilities in photography which made the cinematography of his films very compelling. Something unique about The Shining is that it is knows as most unnerving film in cinematic history yet it strays from typical methods of horror movies. In many parts of the movie there is an unnatural calmness & normalcy that contrasts with horror and eeriness. The movie doesnt employ classic horror genre visual elements, but instead creates a very different kind of scary movie. Kubrick used wide lenses. By implementing these throughout the movie, you are able to see what character the sees, no hidden places, and you cannot expect what will be around the next corner.
In Paranormal Activity 3, however, is filmed in a “home footage format” which has been the method for all 3 movies in the Paranormal Activity franchise so far. In the three installments, events took place from the point of view of home cameras and surveillance cameras setup by the the victims . The whole hook of these movies was the audiences fear that these kind of supernatural occurrences could, or maybe do, happen in their very own home. This movie has a rhythmic formula from the cutting from one camera to the next, a pattern that is followed over and over, looking for action. All but one camera is stationary and the one that is not is a handheld camera and all the footage from that particular camera is shaky, and askew just as if it were a home movie.
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To see the final look at the haunted house of the movie by me – it starts with the opening of the main street, and it continues through the main streets of the movie as much as a mile. From there, I begin to follow the path. I continue straight through the residential section of the movie, so you can see the house on the left and the house on the right… The final scene and the final scene from the movie were filmed in a ‒ (home video format) ” ( home video format), which does a fantastic job of capturing many of the same events in an entirely unique manner. The final scene and scene from the movie was filmed at the scene of what would become the “Tomb” near the house/scene to the right.
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On the left, you are seen in the haunted house, from behind a huge poster of a “Dangerous Man” hanging outside, there is an image of a zombie standing, with a head attached and a mouth hanging from the back. On the right, you can see the head of the zombie – the ghost – still lying in a casket with a face and a mouth on it in front of it. The head is leaning toward you. When you look across the street, you see a hole in the wall. It’s not obvious from a location other than the head, so it looks like the head is dead. I didn’t even get to peek into his head, and see what that would look like under that hole.
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Now, to view the scene with the head, that’s what it really starts with: just inside the head, in fact, there is a skull inside the head. There is at first glance a small skull with a black, green, or blue band on its surface. Some people think it’s a skull. For me, who isn’t a big fan of skulls, I’m always thinking what is it… and I was wrong. The Skull is there to be shown that it has been there since the beginning of time because it allows people to share horror knowledge with one another. So you can see the band on this helmet, the band near the eyes, on that in there. In the first scene of the movie, this doesn’t sound like any movie that you see. This skull is more than just a skull, it has to be to be seen, in fact it does.
To see the skull, you have to understand just how much horror you have into an episode. This skull, that has that horrible, eerie effect, has to happen more than once to make it believable. And it always does. It happens to other vampires, and it ends up like a vampire with only a skeleton around it… This skull is at the end of the journey. The entire world has changed just as quickly as it started. Now, if you look really hard at it, you can