Jaws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8SnZmUjhAA

Location

This is a part of the scene called "jaws bridge"

The location is set in the fictitious Amity Island is holiday retreat Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts.

Genre
I am chosing this film to look at and analyse because this is also a thriller genre, the sub-genres to the film would be action and horror. This is because it includes alot of death and blood making it a very villiant film.

Camera shot/angle/movement
The shot begins with a point of view going through the sea as if it was an animal (shark) this already starts to give us an inside of what the film is going to be about and based around within the first few minutes. Once the shot comes out from the sea it continues on to a tracking movement along side the group of teenagers, this allows us to see how many people there are in this scene and also what the teenagers were doing. The tracking movement continues through the teenagers on the beach till it gets to the end and stops at a medium shot of two characters a girl and boy showing that they are a main focus from the rest and something could possible happen at this time. As the scene progresses we get differented angles shots such as high angled to get a whole outlook of the set location, what is happerning, what they are doing and also who is there. Gradually we get to the shot were the girl is being attacked by the shark around 3:57, as we get to this time we get another point of view shot of the shark looking at the girl ready to attack her. Then once the girl has began to be attacked the camera shots begin to become more close-ups as we can see better facial expressions and get better emotions and see the girls pain and tears.

This is an imagin showing the close up of the two seperate teenagers at the end showing there main focus above the rest of the characters.









Mise-en-scene
Costume: The teenagers sitting on the beach are all wearing dark clothing that is quiet thick such as coats and jackets.
Lighting: The lighting in the scene is very dark but focuses around the main characters. They use the idea of natural light as it is night time so kept it very dark with only the light coming from the fire. Another example of the use of natural light is when Chrissie is being killed in the sea and the moon is reflecting onto her causing a natural light.