Create a blog post demonstrating your understanding of the following cinematographic techniques and explain why you think Kubrick uses them in his films:
One-Point Perspective
Long Steadicam Takes
Deep Focus
Symmetrical Composition
Try to illustrate your post with images where you can.
Note that the examples don’t all need to come from “The Shining” alone
“Depth of field is the area of acceptable sharpness in front of and behind the subject on which the lens is focused. It essentially refers to how blurry or sharp the area is around your subject. The camera’s aperture controls this blurriness and sharpness by adjusting the size of the opening in the lens.” – STUDIOBINDER
shallow focus – one part of the frame is in focus, the rest is out of focus. Can be used to isolate a subject.
deep focus – everything within the shot is in focus. fore-ground , middle-ground and background in focus.
example-
| FILM | PREFERENCE (/10) | MEMORABLE SCENE | CINEMATIC FOCUS |
| THE SHINING (STANLEY KUBRICK, 1980) | 9/10 | MAIN HALL (JACK AND WENDY, MOVING SLOWLY TOWARDS STAIRS) | CINEMATOGRAPHY (CAMERA PLACEMENT, MOVEMENT, FOCUS, SHOT SIZE AND COMPOSITION) |
| FILM | PREFERENCE (/10) | MEMORABLE SCENE | CINEMATIC FOCUS |
| The Shining (Stanley Kubrick. 1980) | 9/10 | Near the climax of the film, where the lift doors open to let loose a torrent of blood which near-destroys the hotel lobby. It’s especially memorable since we’ve seen flashes of it in Danny’s visions, but never paired with the powerful music (Utrenja – Kanon Paschy) we hear in the scene. | Cinematography |
| Film | Preference | Memorable scene | Film focus |
| The Shining | 09/10 | Bartender scene | Cinematography |
| FILM | Preference (/10) | Memorable Scene | Film Element Focus |
| The Shining (Kubrick, 1980) | 10/10 | When Wendy finds Jacks writings and Jack goes crazy | Cinematography |
| film | preference ( /10) | memorable scene | film element focus |
| The shining | 6/10 | the pan at the start when Jack first goes into the the hotel for the first time and follows the guy into the office | cinematography |
| Film | Preference (0/10) | Memorable scene | Film element focus |
| The Shining (Kubrick, 1980) | 9/10 | Where Danny writes red rum on the door and the mirror reflects it as murder | Cinematography |
| Film | Preferences (/10) | Memorable Scene | Film Element Focus |
| The Shining | 8/10 | Imagination Bar Scene | Cinematography |