Relationship Between Shots

This scene utilizes the shot reverse shot technique, but with the actors moving. It creates tension between the characters with the movement of the camera. As Jack Torrence moves toward the camera, it cuts to Wendy moving away from it. It evokes the sense that Jack is going to do something wrong, as he approaches and he yells at Wendy. As the actors say their dialogue, they move across the room, but shot reverse shot editing makes the movement and dialogue seamless. The scene utilizes medium shots with a shallow depth of field. This is put focus on the actors, and give a sense of claustrophobia. This contrast from other scenes in the movie that use wide angle shots to make the rooms and corridors look huge and endless. The contrast of this scene and the rest of the movie is to give the viewer the sense that there is nowhere to hide, that Wendy would be a rat in a maze.   

Stanley Kubrick (the director) was known for cutting his movies to his selected music, which gave the edits in his films a smooth pace. This scene is an example of this. The music plays subtly in the background, and dissonance of the music enhances the tension of the scene. The music cues in as Wendy hits Jack with the baseball bat, and acts as an nondiegetic sound effect to bring the seen to end of a climax. There is also cuts to the cue,  as Jack falls down the stairs.