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Leonardo Ciscomani Gurrola A01251970 7 de febrero de 2019

Fact Sheet/Data Sheet/Technical Sheet Narrative Analysis

Title: The Shining Characters:


Year: 1980 - Jack Torrance
Director: Stanley Kubrick - Wendy Torrance
- Danny Torrance
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
- Hallorann
Executive Producer: Jan Harlan - Ullman
Length: 2hr 26 min - Grady
Writers: - Lloyd
- Stephen King (Novel) Plot
- Stanley Kubrick (Screenplay) A family heads to an isolated hotel for the
- Diane Johnson (screenplay) winter where an evil spiritual presence
Cast: influences the father into violence, while his
- Jack Nicholson psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both
- Shelley Duvall past and future.
- Danny Lloyd
- Scatman Crothers Narrative Space: A lonely and stressful space
Genre: Drama, Horror Narrative Time: Present
Narrative Voice: Third person
Country: UK/USA
Narrative Structure: Lineal
Language: English
Rating: 8.4/10 (IMBd) Golden Ball Bathroom Scene:
Awards: This is the scene where jack hallucinates a party
- Best Supporting Actor in the golden ball, and he enters directly to the
- National Film Preservation Board bar where the bartender Lloyd serves him a
- Motion Picture glass of alcohol. Then as Jack walks off the bar,
we accidentally crash with a waiter named
- Best DVD Collection
Grady. Grady spills some kind of cocktail on his
Studio: Elstree Studios (Borehamwood, jacket and he request to go to the restroom to
Hertfordshire, England) clean him up. As they enter the restroom, they
Budget: $19,000,000 have a chat where Jack ask if he has met him
before, but Grady refuses, Jack insist that he is
the hotel keeper. Grady tells him that he is
indeed the hotel keeper and he ever have
been. Grady persuade jack to hurt his wife and
kid since he tells him that they are forming a
team against him. Jack, at mad stage, believes
him and then he has the idea to go berserk with
his family.

Lobby Scene:
In this scene, jack is at the lobby working,
Danny is riding his tricycle all over the hotel,
and Wendy is at the kitchen. Danny is riding his
tricycle when he stops just to see the little
twins at the end of the hallway, he was so
scared that he couldn’t scream, he closes his
eyes and when he opens them, the door of the
room 237 is opened, he proceeds to enter. At
the time Jack is having a nightmare and
screaming so scared that Wendy runs to the
lobby just to wake him up from his horrible
dream. As Jack wakes up, he was all covered in
sweat and confess to Wendy that in the
nightmare he was hurting her and Danny. Then
Danny shows up with marks and scratches on
his neck. Wendy, scared, thinks that Jack did it
because of the dream he had, but he was so
confused that he turned out mad because she
didn’t believed him although he wasn’t guilty.

Technical Analysis

Cinematography
Camera Angles:
- High Angle
- Low Angle
- Close Up
- Long Tracking Shots
- Fly Camera
Locations:
- Timberlinde Lodge, Mount Hood
Oregon, USA
- Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
- Kensington Apartments, Boulder,
Colorado, USA
- Stansted Airport, Essex, England, UK
Art Director: Leslie Tomkins
- Costumes: Milena Canonero
- Make Up: Tom Smith
Special Effects
Audio:
There are no special audio effects in the
shining.

Visual:
There was only one special effect where
Kubrick wanted to use the fireplace without
affecting the lightning, so he recorded the
scene and then later added the fireplace.

Lightning:
Kubrick chose to use lightning for a more
clinical and interpersonal attitude of the theme
of the supernatural world towards the human
world.

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