character profiles:The characters in the opening scene of jaws are all teenagers huddled around this one camp fire smoking drugs and drinking alcohol, this tells the audience that tey are all free love characters and it reflects the time period that they lived in. But when you are introduced with the man and the girl (chrissie) the man turns around and starts to talk to her from outside the group which tells the audience that there are differnt sets of groups on the beach and they all dont know each other. all the characters introduced at the start are all innocent to the dangers that the sea posses because when chrissie enters the sea she goes in without a care of what is about to happen. This is a contrast because when you get the camera shots from under the sea then you get the prespective from jaws. these camera shots represent something ominous is about to happen.
sound
The most obvious sound that is created throughout the film is the tense and nervey jaws march. As soom as the them starts this begins to unease the audience who suspect that something dark is about to happen. But beside this sound the other sounds that are created are the ones that the people are creating around the camp fire from the guitar and harmonicas that they have, these sounds symbolise the freedom that the characters have because they are playing there own music when they feel like it. Finally the other sounds that are created in the opening scene is the ones from chrissie when jaws is pulling her underneath the water, her frantic and desperate shrieks symbolise her pain and desperation because she knows that she has no hope left.
cinematography
The different camera shots of the sea create a tense and nervy feeling for the audience after the shark attack that killed the poor chrissie. When you get the shots from underneath the sea you get the prespective of jaws which signals to the audience that something ominous is about to happen. But before the shark has finished off with chrissie there is a shot of her swimming out in to rthe sea, this is significant because it shows to the audience that shes isolated and if something is to pull her under the water then she has little hope of surviving. Once the shark attack has finished you get a wide angle shot of the blank canvas of the sea, this tells the audience that the sea has more than meets the eye.
Mise-En-Scene
in the first few opening scenes of jaws there is little movement from the characters that are surrounding the centre piece of the shot, the camp fire. the camp fire is crucial in the opening scenes because it is out of the way from the sea where the danger lies. This tells the audience that it is a safe place for the characters refuge away from the sea,the characters that are around the fire are all under the infuence of drugs and alcohol which best reflects the time era that they are in. Other props that are used in the first scene are the musical instruments that the characters are playing in the background (the harmonica and the acoustic guitar) this creates a very friendly and welcoming enviroment which is a contrast to the dangers of the sea.
The light and colour that is used in the opening scenes vary between both the settings, the beach and the sea. When the characters are socialising on the beach the source of light is prodimantely from the camp fire, in my opinion this is a connotation of life and that everybody associated is living in good health. But when you see the setting of the sea it is the complete opposite, there is dull and dark lighting and the only bit of light that is being provided is the light that is trying to sneak through the thick clouds in the sky. The use of the dull lighting is to symbolise death and something sinister is about to happen which subsequently results in the death of chrissie.
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