The Shining Film Techniques

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The movie, “Shining,” is directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. This film is based on the Stephen King’s novel, The Shining, in 1977. In the lecture, we watched documentary film, “The Making of THE SHINING,” which is filmed by Stanley Kubrick’s seventeen-years-old daughter, Vivian. The Documentary is mostly the Vivian’s vision. The cinematography was shaky and unstable all the time. However, I feel that it created the reality. Usually, the purpose of documentary film is document some aspect of reality. I think she succeed in showing the important emotional moments in the filmmaking of Shinning.

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This documentary film includes interview scenes, actual scenes from the movie; Shining, and image from Vivian’s visions. As

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