Jaws Film Techniques

Jaws is a film about 3 brave men set out to kill a man eating shark

also makes use of discontinuous editing, in a sequence that finds the projectionist/Sherlock Jr. sweeping outside a movie theater. After he sweeps and straightens a sign, the film suddenly employs an unanticipated straight cut to the projectionist walking up to a store. The projectionist is wanting to buy something he doesn’t have enough money for, then, after realizing he is short of funds, another quick straight cut shows him sweeping the movie theater again. In this instance, discontinuous editing is utilized to build on the narrative of the movie; following his encounter at the store, the projectionist is searching for the money he needs inside the pile of trash he was

During the film Steve Spielberg uses music, a mysterious shark and camera techniques such as simultaneous track and zoom, long shot, close up shots and medium shots to build suspense, tension and scare the audience.

Camera shots and angles are also used by Ross as a cinematic technique. The lack of engagement in class of a close up of David’s face is an example. David’s face show the expression of boredom and tiredness, as he listens to the teacher talk. Another example of a camera technique is the close up of David asking out a girl. It shows the strength and courage David has in him, but a long shot shows us that the girl is hundreds of meters away. This conveys that David is too socially inept to

Citizen Kane uses mise-en-scene is multiple scenes to help tell the narrative. A perfect example is when the parents

Early movies were shot and viewed as slide shows. With narrations like The Life Of An American Fireman, where instead of cutting we would see full clips linked together. When the filmmakers brought us from one action to the next they, repeated actions instead of cutting and letting

interior of room (like shot 16). Husband sitting on chair, leaning against table with telephone near his elbow. Husband looks at gun, chuckles then looks at telephone and picks it up (8

In the Truman show, the theme of audience manipulation is greatly portrayed through the different camera shots used. The director uses many different camera shots to emphasize specific actions throughout the film. Eye-level shots, close-up shots, and high-angle shots are

In the interview, John Huston explained the function of cuts. Without moving our heads, human eyes will not pick up the information in between looking from one object to another. Basically, your eyes can juxtapose two or more objects. This is a cut. Film Editors use cuts to discard information that doesn’t push the story forward.

Moreover, both of these two editing techniques demonstrate the conflicts well with another important elements of editing, cut and duration. As a transition for connecting the scenes, cut is the most common one which exists before fade. It could work between the scenes changed by 180 degree rules and reverse shot, and also plays a crucial rule when there is a pushing forward in the plot. In this clip,

The film, Jaws, uses a variety of different photographic techniques. Panning was used quite often in this movie to remind the viewer that they were a long distance from the shoreline. Additionally, plenty of filming was done underwater. This allowed the audience to get a realistic feel for the surrounding environment. The brilliant underwater imagery resulted with help from the naturally dark and chilling emptiness of the foreign ocean world. A notable climatic shot is

Another interesting use of camera cutting can be found in the in between scene where Cleo is roaming the streets of Paris. She is now becoming the one watching other people rather than being the one watched as she was in the beginning (probably because of her beauty and famous singer status). While she is watching the camera cuts between other people’s conversations and then while she is walking the camera is in essence her point of view. However during this walk, the people passing are watching her as well, thus proving that this is the transition time. The use of cutting between shots of her and shots of all these people passing her not only show this change in who is watching who, but also allows for a sense of time passing. Interspersed with these shots are images of people we have already met, the widow, the boyfriend, the piano player, as well as the images of a monkey resting on a clock and her wig resting on the mirror, these things conveying how the people who know her see her and how she sees herself. This is a genius montage because these two things represent the same thing, how people see her, how she sees people, and how she sees herself, and by interspersing them we see

Jean-Luc Godard stumble upon jump cuts when he was commission to do a 90 minute film, but he surpassed that limit and had to cut the film down but, still ensure that it makes sense and has a rhythm. When he finished editing the film, the clips made sense and he saw that it works.

There is then a tracking shot of the man inter-cut with a close up of

The shot transitions are cuts which maintain the flow of the narrative and the character’s actions.