The Shining (maze scene)

Among all the famous scenes in this film like room 237, the bathroom, and Jack axing down the door is a really great one thats not so well known. The maze scene. The scene opens with a tracking shot of Wendy and Danny running out to explore the maze. As they run into the maze

it continues tracking to a picture of a maze and the background music becomes more apparent continuing to the next scene.

Where it cuts to Jack inside traipsing around the living room,

walking towards the model of a maze and just as he bends over it it cuts to a really good shot of him leaning over watching the maze, this shot really signifies his domineering, threatening characteristic in the film

It then cuts to a close up of him with his eyes still on the maze.

And then cuts to an ariel shot of the model maze and as it slowly zooms in the audio changes to a mystical, transitioning music representing the transition of reality and deception. You can hear Wendy and Danny talking and laughing and can see them venturing through the maze (model maze)

And then cuts to Wendy and Danny in the real maze.
This is brilliant use of parallel editing, where cross cutting between two scenes shows action in two different location. The audience know that Wendy and Danny went into the maze and when Jack looks into the model maze it give a sense that he is watching over them. Which again conveys the dominance he has over the two of them

Watch the scene here