Amity Island Beach Scene In The Film Scene Of Jaws

Directed by Steven Spielberg, Jaws (1975) figures into one of the most iconic films in the history of Hollywood filmmaking most notably for the visual experience that is created with the creative use of various tools of filmmaking that allow its impact to be felt even now. The classic Amity Island beach scene shown in the clip artfully uses editing techniques like long takes, wipes, split diopter, point of view shots, the zolly, and background score to intensify the suspense ridden impending shark attack without actually showing the shark. The scene utilizes long takes, point of view shots, split diopter, and the iconic Hitchcockian zolly shot to dramatize the events leading up to and subsequently, the shark attack itself. The establishing shot of the Amity Beach scene is a long take

The scene cuts away to children splashing around in the water closer to the foreground at the bottom of the frame whereas a shark fin is visible as it engulfs the child in the background closer to the upper half of the frame. The attack is almost obscured by the children splashing around in the ocean to visualize how it must have looked for the onlookers on the beach. The scene then cuts to a crowd shot of people at the beach reacting to the attack. The purpose of this shot is to show that a people at the beach start noticing the attack but the mother of the boy is not yet made aware of the situation as she continues to look down and read her book. The scene cuts to an Extreme Long Shot where the boy is seen struggling as the shark is pulling him down and blood starts filling that part of the ocean. This shot then cuts to a point of view shot of the shark where the boy is visibly being pulled down and blood starts spilling. The continuity error here is that in the shot before this, the blood has already