The second attack begins with a boy called Alex, coming out if the sea during the day. The camera mid-shots the boy and focuses on him. Alex walks up to his mum and asks for another little while in the water. After pleading to his mum she allows him to staying there for another ten minutes. Alex takes a yellow lilo and goes back in to the sea.
There is a mid-shot with a man in the back playing a game with his dog throwing sticks in to the sea for his dog to go and fetch there is also the sound of a couple talking and the sound of a man on a radio station. The director also concentrates on Brody, close up on Brody’s face whilst he’s watching the sea he seems angry and in tension, as if he’s looking or waiting for something, since he has a 100% of his concentration towards it. A mid-shot of a man with a black hat swimming in the sea, the audience and Brody think it’s a shark a sudden tension is created, for the audience and Brody but as the man raises his head there is a big relief for them. There are still close-ups of Brody continuing to watch the sea, there is a mid-shot of the sea whilst Alex and the dog and other islanders are still swimming. There is then a long shot of a woman screaming whilst she is in the sea again the audience think it’s a shark, tension is built but then they realise that there is no shark and there is nothing there.
There is a mid-shot of the man with the dog calling his dog whilst Brody’s younger son is singing in the background. The audience begin to wonder if the dog is lost or has drowned or if its been eaten by the shark.
The threatening, menacing, prey searching music begins the camera is then shot from underwater, the scene is shot as a track and zoom as its being shot by the sharks point of view. The camera then zooms into Alex on the lilo, the shark then attacks him, and blood squirts like a fountain above the sea. The audience has sympathy for him and are also quiet disappointed since they know this character. Meanwhile Brody registers what has happened and the camera zooms into his face whilst the audience want him to do something to help Alex. The attack is seen in distance through a long-shot, this builds tension.
A general panic is created by everyone on the beach as all the islanders and people on it are trying to get there children and family members out of the sea, there is a general pan/long shot of this. The audience is worried and they also want to know if Brody’s family is ok or if someone else is going to get attacked. The camera is shot from a pan on to Alex’s mum who is looking for him.
A mid-shot of the calm yellow lilo washes up to the shore with blood all around it.
The audience is emotionally involved with Brody’s family because we have more sympathy for them as the audience has seen them from the beginning of the movie. The audience feels sorry for Brody and don’t want anything to be hurting or harming him because he plays the character of as good guy in the movie, we are emotionally motivated by them.
The audience, gets worried when Brody’s children are in the sea, because we want them to be safe, this is also because we don’t want too much on Brody’s mind, for him to breakdown and not help save other peoples lives.
The book of shark scares the audience and also surprises them, as they see the disturbing images of shark attacks, wounds and scars given to humans by sharks, page by page flickering through the book. The audience doesn’t want anything like that to happen to anyone.
The destruction of the jetty builds up tension for the audience as the two men throw in the chunk of meat attached to a chain in the sea. The shark eats the meat and the shark pulls the chain. As the chain is pulled the two men fall into the sea and the jetty is destructed. One of the men, jump back up to the shore, but one of them is still pulled back by the chain attached to the jetty. The audience begins to get worried as a lot of tension is built because we think that the shark will attack the man, and the audience want him to swim back.
The man at the shore is encouraging the man in the sea to swim
back as fast as he can. The audience wants the man on the shore
to help the guy that’s in trouble. The jetty turns around to the
opposite direction and the audience begin to hear the
threatening music, a sign of the shark being here. The man swims
back as he thinks he is going to be attacked by the shark and the
audience get frustrated as they want him to swim back faster.
The shark is still swimming behind the man. After a lot of
swimming the man finally gets to the shore, the camera instantly takes a mid-shot of the mans legs, to show us that’s he’s ok. The audience gets relieved, as he has reached safely.
Catching the wrong shark makes the audience angry and disappointed. The audience get really relieved since they think that the actual shark that has been causing danger has been captured. But as they find out that the beastly harmful shark is still out there they get disappointed.
When Brody and Hooper go out in the boat in the middle of the night, the audience feels very tensed and scared, as they want these to characters to stay safe. As Hooper decides to go under water the audience’s reaction instantly is that he’s stupid, the shark’ll eat him. When Hooper sees the fisherman’s face him and the audience both freak out.
The attack begins with a long shot where the audience can see the beach, which represents the good and safe side of the beach whilst they see the sea the danger side. This attack is different than the previous attacks because in the previous no one knew there was a shark in the sea. The mayor of the town forces a family to go into the sea, the audience begins to despise the mayor because of this. As the family begin to walk into the sea other people on the beach decide to follow them. Most people in the beach are then in the sea. Brody is very tensed and worried, he tells his son and his friends to go and swim in the lake as its safer instead of the sea. Brodys son disagrees at first, but he notices how tense his father is, so he agrees to it. As people are swimming and playing in the sea a shark fin is seen in a distance a women begins to shout ‘shark’ ‘shark’. All the lifeguards and security all go towards the fin in a boat whilst people are all running towards the beach, the audience gets tensed at the moment as they want everyone to be safe. As the fin is raised, two boys are beneath it, everyone realises that this is just a prank. Everyone’s attention is to this, whilst Brodys son and his friends are still in the lake. A lady suddenly begins to shout ‘shark’ ‘shark’ and this time the audience begin to hear the music.
A mid aged man rowing on a boat asks the boys if they’re ok but all of a sudden the boat tips and the man falls into the sea. You see that shark and the camera is then shot from underwater where the mans leg falls onto the ground as the shark eats the rest of his body up. Meanwhile Brody and other people on the beach are running towards the lake, and while seeing the attack in a distant the boys try to swim out of the lake. The audience wants Brody’s son to be ok. Brody and his wife run towards the lake and Brody’s son is pulled out of the lake as he has fainted. The Camera takes zoom in to Brody’s sons’ legs to show us that his safe.
After this attack Brody, Hooper and Quints decide to catch the shark on a boat. Brodys family is really upset that Brody is going to catch the shark and they don’t know how many days it might take him to return from this boat trip. They start their journey with all there equipment to catch the shark.
The first time they see the shark they use an arrow, which is connected to an orange barrel with a rope in order for them to see exactly where the shark, but the director only shows the sharks’ fin. The shark begins to swim extremely fast as he has been hit with an arrow and the guys sailed behind it to catch it. Tension is built up for the audience as they think the sharks going to get caught, but the shark swims really fast and gets away, then was nowhere to be seen. That night the weather was terrible as it was raining and windy, the guys get drunk and talk about themselves. In this conversation they talked about their previous jobs and what they have done in the past.
The next day they do the same things as they did the first time to catch the shark, twice but the shark still gets away with, again the director only shows the sharks’ fin. Then after many attempts Hooper decides to go in through a cage and shoot the shark. The audience think he’s mad and is going to get killed, but they want something to be done about the shark. All three men have an argument over this, but at the end finally he decides to go.
When Hooper goes down below he takes a big chunk of meat with him to attract the shark to him.
Hooper is tightly locked into the cage for his safety. They attach a chain to the cage that is attached to the boat. As he goes in to the sea, the audience begin to hear the music, instantly they know that the shark is coming closer and closer. Hooper gives the shark the meat, but instead the shark decides to attack and break the cage. Hooper gets terrified and drops his gun. The audience are at the edge of their seats as they think something’s going to happen him. Brody and Quints are unaware of what’s happening in the sea.
A few seconds later the shark jumps up above the sea and tries to jump on to the boat and attack Brody and Quints. This time the audience actually gets to see how big the shark is for the first time throughout the movie, and the size is a big shock for them. Maybe that’s the reason why the director avoids showing the shark previously in the movie. While trying to attack the two, the shark destroys the boat meanwhile Brody and Quints try to run further and further away from the shark. The shark finally attacks Quints the fisherman, the audience are worried and want something to stop the shark from eating him, but there’s no one to help him as Brody is trying to save his own life. There’s blood everywhere and the shark finally eats up Quints. Brody throws a can full of gas to attack in so it gets hurt, fortunately the can lands in his mouth. Brody then picks up a gun and aims it on the can so it blows the shark, after many attempts the can bursts and there’s a big explosion inside the sea. Brody starts to laugh in joy; all of a sudden Hooper jumps out of the sea, and swims up to the remaining peaces of the boat. That was the end of the beastly shark.
In this movie I did not actually find any if the scenes scary or really funny but I found one scene terrifying and that’s when; the shark eats Alex up. I found it terrifying because it’s usually emotional to see anything-horrible happening to a child or to children.
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Afsheen Mahomed 10KA