Friday 2 October 2015

Mise-en-scene - Opening scene of Jaws

  • Opening scene starts with the sharks p.o.v as it swims
  • We hear non-diegetic low, stringed music - associated with the shark
  • Camera tracks past kids around camp fire
  • Fire is source of light
  • Girl and boy on edge of group - outsiders
  • Medium close up of the girl - bars of fence behind her - suggests she is trapped
  • High angled shot makes them look vulnerable

  • Boy and girl run off from the light of the fire into the darkness
  • Bars all around them - suggesting they're both trapped
       
  • Music gets quieter showing that they are getting further and further away and gets replaced with the sound of the sea - leaving other people - putting themselves in danger
  • Long shot - calm - in the moonlight - peaceful
  • Only sound you can hear is the buoy
  • Sunset - Symbolises the girl's life ending
  • Jumps from longshot to close shot - brings audience closer to the action
  • Music comes back of during the sharks p.o.v under the water
      
  • Cuts away from the action - doesn't give anything away
  • Noise from the water crashing is loud to show chaos and mayhem
  • Music suddenly stops when girl goes underwater - symbolises she is dead
  • Cuts back to the boy to show he wasn't aware of anything

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