The Shining 'Come play with us Danny' Analysis

The Shining is a representation of the typical horror convention of an isolated setting. The three members in the family are stuck in this hotel, alone for an extended period of time
This scene commonly known as 'come play with us Danny', begins with Danny riding a tricycle through a long corridor. In this first corridor the camera seems to be tracking Danny but at a distance. This is to show the surrounding area, the emptiness of the corridor and the length of it.
The mise-en-scene use of the corridor could be a way of striking fear into the viewer. This may possibly be due to the commonly shared nightmare of long corridors. Showing this could actually invoke hidden or new fears for the viewer. At this point in the scene the non-diegetic sound of high pitched music is slowly building up. This makes me begin to feel anxious as it gives the sense that something frightening is to happen soon. The mise-en-scene of Danny's clothes in this scene and in others reminds me of the film Chuckie. The clothes the two characters wear and the tricycle used are both extremely similar. Due to this I feel the fear I had from watching Chuckie.
The camera follows Danny shot through the different corridors from and over the shoulder shot. The camera follows Danny closely causing me to feel entrapped and like I am there with Danny going round the corridors. Just as Danny does ride round the corner to witness the two girls there is a sudden non diegetic slam of a low pitched sound. At that point I did have a little jump of fear. The scene is lit with artificial light but is surprisingly high key. As the typical lighting for the horror genre is low key lighting. When Danny stops and sees the two girls the non-diegetic music stays at a constant eerie low pitched sound. We then get a point of view shot of the two girls when it shows them as they were killed in the hotel with an axe on the floor next to them. This can possibly be seen as a foreshadowing of the weapon Jack later uses to try and kill his family. This is shown through a long shot so we are able to fully see the girls and the surrounding area. The quick flashes we see of the two girls lying dead made me feel quite scared. My heart rate quickened. Throughout the film and in this scene there is a constant use of the colour red. This represents the danger and blood shed of the film. This is also another typical convention of the Horror genre. To intensify the fear we get a reaction shot from Danny to show just how terrified he is at this. He covers his eyes with his hands. When he removes his hands from his face, he sees that the two girls have gone. For the rest of this scene the camera stays at a tight shot of Danny. I found this scene to be rather scary, the high and low pitched non-diegetic music intensified the feeling of fear for me. But this was not the the most scary scene I saw in this film.

Hanna

In the first scene of this action film it fades in then pans to establish the setting. This also shows the vast emptiness of the surrounding area. It uses edit cuts to show other places within the setting to give the viewer an idea of where this setting actually is. It then cuts to a panning movement across a woodland area. In this we get to see Hanna standing between two trees hunting the animal. We see that Hanna is in focus but the tree closest to the camera is out of focus to give us a sense of distance. This also shows that Hanna is the main focal point in this scene.
We then hear the enhanced diegetic sound of the arrow being shot at the animal. When the animal begins to run I can feel it's fear as it runs for it's life. Especially when we see the pint of view shot from the animal as it is running. Through this we also hear the non diegetic sounds of Hanna and the Animal running through the snow.
This then cuts to the animal slowing down and staggering to the ground. When I see the animals legs shaking and its cry's of pain and fear it makes me feel very upset. I feel sorry for this animal and almost feel it's pain. We get another point of view shot from the animal looking up to Hanna when she is about to shoot it in the heart. This shows Hanna as powerful and dominant. The predator.

This view of power towards Hanna soon changes. The camera zooms towards Hanna so the audience does not see that her father is behind her. During the fight between Hanna and her father it is a constant close up shot of the two. This makes me feel like I am almost involved in this, trapped in the fight. Hanna's father slams her to the ground, just as she did to the animal. We see a low angle shot of her father. The view of power has now shifted.

At the end of this sequence while Hanna is lying on the floor the camera then zooms upwards to show Hanna lying next to the animal she has just killed. Hannah is left helpless and defeated, just like the animal.

Cold Mountain

The scene began with a Extreme long Aerial shot - this was used to establish setting and shown us that this man had traveled far, which made us want to know where he was going.

The shot tilts to show us this man's footprints, and doesn't reveal his face until the end of the shot due to the silhouette - which makes him shady and mysterious. 

We can tell that he's been traveling in the cold for a while due to his exhaustion and the frost in his beard, this makes us want to know what is so important to risk the cold environment, and it's not obvious where he's come from and where he's going.

In the parallel cut edit, it shows us that he's separated from his wife, which makes me feel sympathetic toward him - and that they long for each other because of the voice over which is reading the letter to us. This is also shown in the way that the voice over starts just before the cut, and he looks up, as if he's listening to her voice.
The low key lighting in this shot is to show her loneliness and distress.

In the next cut we see a dead deer, which has been frozen to death which shows how dangerous the environment is and are foreshadowing for the deaths that are about to happen. 

This is mainly Low key lighting, made of natural light from the fire and little fill light - this is to give the contrast of the background, which has been illuminated blue to show the coldness. The closeness of the warmth and cold shows that in this setting you're never far away from danger.
Two new characters join the shot quite abruptly due to the darkness of the environment, and they are wearing all black clothing which is commonly known as evil which signify's that they are not to be trusted. They also arrive on the shot on horses, which shows their  dominance, power and control over these other characters. 

The guy above is seen unlit unlike the other characters, and the fact that he's hiding behind a rock could show that he's cautious and untrusting of the two men that arrived out of nowhere - we see most of the shots of the characters around the fire from his point of view. The close up shot allows us to see the fear and his emotions of the other characters.

I feel like the shot where the two characters get shot is the strongest shot, as it affects you emotionally. I felt shocked when the two characters were shot - this could be due to one of the characters (Right) acting childlike and oblivious to what was going on around him, we could see this as he was smiling still when they made him cover his face. We feel empathy for this character, as well as the other character (left) as he act's like his father, and looks after him. The childlike manner of the Right hand guy makes us think of him much younger than he actually is.

After a jump cut, the next shot is of two women who are talking about the war - the woman above is mostly seen from the camera behind objects (Above). This could show her distance from the other character and her distress. The change of time from night to day could show that the evil's past, and that they're safe for a while.