Jaws

Jaws were directed by Steven Spielberg. A terrifying movie that will make people fear the water. This film won The People's Choice Award for Favourite Movie, an
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and more. This film was very successful because of the music that made the audience shiver and most importantly the camera shots and angles.
The movie started with a young woman who has killed a shark. The police chief Martin Brody (played by Roy Scheider) decides to close the beach, however, the mayor disagrees because of the upcoming event. The shark showed up again in the event and made Matt Hooper (played by Richard Dreyfuss) and Captain Quint (played by Robert Shaw) follow Martin to capture the shark known as the ‘killer beast.’

The characters were perfectly picked to make the audience relate to the characters. “Scheider is the character most of us identify with. He's actually scared of the water, doesn't like to swim and, when he sees the giant shark swim past the boat for the first time. Shaw brings a degree of cheerful exaggeration to his role as Quint, stomping around.” (Ebert, 1975) For example, Matt Hooper is presented as the ‘funny guy’ in the film. Spielberg intelligently used this character to make the audience forget about the crazy adventure they are having. Having a character like Matt makes the audience tension go down so that when the shark ‘pops’ up again the tense in the audience would be larger. The characters are also there for competition as it makes the audience think, who is going to kill the shark? Spielberg gives us an option. For example, the ‘brainy one,’ the masculine character, or the feminine.
In conclusion, the characters were not randomly dropped in the scene, Spielberg used the characters for us to relate to and to trick us to create more tension. 

“Well yes, but it’s frightening for a rather simpler reason. The threat of what you can’t see is far more worrying than the fear of what you can - especially if it is likely to rise up out of the water and bite you between the legs, having first removed them.” (Malcolm, 2016) Agreeing with Malcolm statement, Spielberg uses different camera shots to show the action and to warn when the shark is nearby. A point of view shot is used underwater to represent the shark, this makes the audience want to tell the character to move however cannot do anything about it. A mid-shot is used to show the character screaming in terror. Not only does the shot help create the tension in the scene, however, but the music in the film also helps create the atmosphere and scare the audience or warn us when the shark is coming, again creating the tension in the room.

“the shark itself. Some of the footage in the film is an actual great white shark. The rest uses a mechanical shark patterned on the real thing. The illusion is complete. We see the shark close up, we look in its relentless eye, and it just plain feels like a shark.” (Staff, 2015) In conclusion, Spielberg puts the camera at a certain angle to make the shark look terrifying and uses a various camera to show the action of the characters.

Bibliography;
Ebert, Roger (1975) – Jaws at: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jaws-1975 [Accessed: 07/03/2018]

Malcolm, Derek (2015) – Steven Spielberg's Jaws review - archive, 1975 at: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/22/jaws-steven-spielberg-1975-review-derek-malcolm [Accessed: 07/03/2018]

Staff, THR (2015) – 'Jaws': THR's 1975 Review at:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jaws-review-original-1975-movie-799461 [Accessed: 07/03/2018]


Illustration;
Figure 1. Jaws Movie (1975) [Poster] at: https://thevirginia.org/event/jaws-1975/2017-06-20/ [Accessed 07/03/2018]

Figure 2. Jaws (2015) [Still Film] at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/118782508892814922/ [Accessed 07/03/2018]

Figure 3. Shark Shot (2015) [Still Film] at: http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3373531/steven-spielberg-on-remaking-jaws/  [Accessed 07/03/2018]

Figure 4. Relentless eyes (2016)[Still Film] at: https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Jaws-Celebrate-40th-Anniversary-With-Special-Event-You-Can-Attend-71709.html  [Accessed 07/03/2018]