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The Making of The Shining

Published by Matthew Jeppsen December 14th, 2007 in Art, News, Off Topic

During production of The Shining, Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Vivian made a behind the scenes documentary on the process. Even at 17 years of age she was an adept filmmaker and apparently a quite good at the art of interviewing as well, considering some of the very candid comments made by the film’s stars. The resulting 35-minute film is included in The Shining two-disc DVD release (also on HD-DVD and Blu-ray), and also happens to be up at Google Video. There is a version with Vivian Kubrick’s commentary as well. That one is really interesting, her commentary is very revealing about the process. She talks about the early model video tap that was used for playback on set, Garrett Brown’s mods to her Aaton camera rig, Jack Nicholson’s door-smashing technique, and much more. Finally, more food for thought on metaphors and “mistakes” in The Shining can be found here.

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1 pablo korona Dec 15th, 2007 at 3:48 am

what i find interesting throughout this documentary is the heavy use of playback. I simply don’t have the experience with film, but naively thought that there was no playback. You shoot it, its in the magazine, its done… But now hearing Kubrick say “lets playback the last 4 takes” makes me feel alright that i playback as much as i can.

I think his directing style is rather unique, and i’d like to see more of the process with him and the cameras, guiding composition amongst other things. He speaks of lenses, but so far nothing of lighting, etc… i know we’re probably not going to see this ever, but still i find it fascinating.

thank you for posting this.

pk
2 Kendal Miller Dec 15th, 2007 at 1:19 pm

Often times a film set will record a dub off the video tap just to see actors performances etc..