The Shining

Today in our media lesson, we watched a film called The Shining which is a quite old horror movie, what made this movie very interesting is that, it contained a great deal and also a huge amount of suspense, which keeps the viewer glued to there seat, and it keeps them wanting more, and to see what the great deal od suspense is about. The film's main storyline is about a caretaker that has moved into a hotel that has ghosts and is meant to be haunted with his family. Us the audience get to play god, and therefore we get to know what is happeniong in the story before any of the other characters have a clue, such as we know that the main character is going mad before anyone else like his family knows. The suspense used throughout the whole film is what makes it so good for the viewers also high pitched screeches and high soundtracks are used to keep the viewers on alert for any grusome occurances, low droning sounds and also extrordinary lengths of camera angles and shots are used when intense scenes are happening this is mainly used to engage the viewers into further viewing.

I enjoyed this film because it is really old, but can still be used now to scare the viewers, and still covers all the conventions of a thriller, and it keeps it viewers on the edge of there seat just like a thriller from todays time would, it also uses soundtracks to show scary scenes and it also to show intensity.