The writer, Jack, starts to have depression and tries to kill his family after they go to the hotel to spend their winter and take care of the hotel in the Shining. As a horror film, the Shining has high tension throughout the movie, but Stanley Kubrick increase tension gradually by using camera distance and lenses in the ten shots of the Shining.
First of all, Kubrick prepares the viewer to make them feel the developing tension by changing the distance of the camera. For instance, Kubrick uses long shots for the first three shots while he uses medium shots as well as close-up shots for the rest of the clip. Each distance gives different meaning, so Kubrick uses these meaning in an appropriate way to represent what he has in his mind. By using
