The first shot starts of with a long distance aerial shot straight down at the sea, at this point the sea looks almost black and menacing, the camera slowly zooms in until a large sailing boat is visible, there is very similar music to the jaws film with a repetitive sequence played repeatedly, this gives a feeling of uneasiness. The shot then skips past the boat and has an underwater shot looking up at the boat this gives the sense that there is something under the water and starts to prepare you for what is going to happen later, the music then gets louder and ends with a dramatic chord carrying on the feeling of uneasiness.
The next shot is on the boat, it has regular pop music and pans across four young adults having fun. The shot then goes to another underwater shot with dramatic music from the shark’s perspective which starts zooming in on a person’s foot in the water, this makes the audience feel uneasy as all the underwater shots have dramatic music and gives a sense of danger to the water. The next shot is on the boat again with a mid shot of the person taking there foot out of the water this shot has regular music but leaves the audience in suspense, as they do not when the shark is going to strike. The camera then has a close up of a teddy bear sitting on the radio, this represents innocence and vulnerability as it is a child’s toy. There is also a close up of a bottle of wine being knocked over, liquid oozes out in a deep red colour representing blood, there is also a shot from in the water looking up at the liquid sinking into the sea.
The next shot is a mid shot of the two adults on the boat, in this shot the boat rocks slightly and the woman gets a bit anxious but the man ignores it, this makes the audience feel tense, as they know what it is, this also prepares them for what is going to happen next. During the end of this shot, the music on the boat is almost completely drowned out by the sound effects of the film. Then there is more rocking of the boat and as the tension builds so does the cutting of the film into different shots. There shots include aerial shots, moving camera shots, close ups and shots from the water, these shots change so quickly they leave you feeling disorientated and enhance the level of panic that is now on the boat.
During the end of this scene, the tension reaches a peak where the shark breaks though the boat and knocks the people into the water. The camera then focuses on the peoples terrified face as they try and climb back into the boat, at this point the audience expects the people to be killed, but a harpoon is shot into the shark, the music suddenly dies down and the camera pans from the harpoon to a close up of the mans face who shot it. The audience automatically knows that he is going to be a key point in this film. This is the end of the scene and from here, the film jumps to a completely different scene shot in daylight with a helicopter flying over a city. This is almost like a point in the film for the audience to catch their breath.
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