The second attack is on a small boy in the sea at a crowded beach on Amity Island. It starts with the young boy asking his mother if he can go back into the sea. We then see Brody sat on the beach watching out for sharks. The camera does a long shot of Brody’s point of view, which we see a woman screaming. This makes us think that the girl is being attacked when she is not, this builds up tension because it hasn’t happened yet and we know it will do we just don’t no when. Using the wide angle shot of the shows us how big the sea is and how vulnerable people are in it. It then shows a boy running back into the water using mid range shot with the boy on the lilo n the background and the children in the fore ground. This makes us uneasy because there is a lot of splashing which means if the shark was to be there it would be camouflaged and also the splashing attracts sharks. Next, there is a close up shot of a small child singing, seeing the small child singing is calming which lulls us into a false sense of security, making the imminent attack scarier as you do not expect it. A view from under the water is then given from the shark’s point of view showing legs. This gives us the signal that something is under the water, it builds up tension as we cannot be certain what it is, but that there is definitely something there. Finally, the attack happens, we see the boy being attacked from wide angle shot. As a result of the false alarm before at first we are not definatly sure that the boy is being attacked. Then the camera shows the blood in the sea. Brody then notices the attack. The camera does a close up shot and we see him panicking. There is now wide shots of everyone running out of the sea which is general chaos.
The director uses music as a big way to build up the tension. The main theme which is famous from the jaws is the low bass music which over time increases in volume and speed. This gives the image that something is approaching which is scary because we don’t know what it is. He also uses quite modern music which is quite jumpy; this makes us scared because again we do not know what is going to happen. Showing the damage that the shark can do builds up the fear of the shark because after seeing what the shark can do, it makes you much more aware of how dangerous it is. When you think that a shark is coming, after you’ve seen it rip some ones leg of and chew them to pieces, you are a lot more scared of them. This is why Spielberg uses this technique as it will make the audience a lot more scared. When the characters reactions are shown it makes a lot more real. If they stayed calm during the whoile film it would make you think that the shark is not that bad, but when it is found out that the original shark is still out there even the character Matt Hooper is scared. Matt Hooper is a shark expert who knows all about there behaviour so for a man with a good understating of sharks to show fear of one. Then it is definitely a very scary creature.
The whole story line is constantly building up tension. The first to attacks are close together because you wouldn’t expect that much action to happen at the beginning. So the second attack would firstly shock the audience and also once it had happened the audience would be expecting another attack about the same time distance again so while their kept waiting the tension is rising. The third attack on Brody’s son builds up the tension because before when the attacks had been on characters that we had not previously met we cared but not as much as if it was some one we knew. Before, we see Brody with his son, they are happy together and he loves him very much. This makes the attack on him much more shocking and a lot more personal for us and the characters. The final attack is quite a long time after the first to, so the audience are already starting to suspect one will happen soon. During the final boat scene on the small boat there is a mixture of close up shots on the characters and wide shots of the sea. Both of these types of shots create tension. The close up shots on the character let us sea the reactions on there faces but does not show us exactly what is happening. The wide shots show us how big the sea is and how venerable the boat is in it. This creates tension as we know the attack is definitely going to happen and we know that it is going to cause a lot of damage but we do not know when it is going to happen.
I think the scariest moment of the film is the part where the shark jumps out at the boat at the end of the film. There has jus previously been an attack on the boat and the characters are still in shock so we really do not expect it. There is a wide shot of the sea which looks calm, suddenly the shark jumps out. We are given a false sense of security by the attack before which makes the impact of the attack much more. It literally shocks us when it happens.
