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Suspense And Film Techniques In The Film Jaws

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Jaws has a lot of film techniques but the ones that stood out to me the most were really exciting like the eye level shot, where the woman is in the water and all you see is her face and some people swimming behind her. She appears to be pretty calm in the start but then she sees he 's sharks fin out of nowhere. The camera then points to to the shark fin. Then the eye level shot points back to her where she makes the expression that she would have if a real shark were to be there, which gives us a feel for what we would do if we were in her place. Its effect/purpose was to allow us the viewers to that perspective of the shark at times.

Another one that a lot of people enjoyed is the famous dolly shot. When the young boy is taken under and

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