A Discussion of How the Sound and Mise-En-Scène Merge Together to Provoke an Audience Response in the Scene ‘Get Out of the Water’ in Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)

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“One particular day, Brody sits on the beach, scanning the water nervously as people frolic in the surf, splashing and calling to each other. A young man is playing fetch with his Labrador retriever in the surf. An elderly man wearing a swim cap, Henry (Alfred Wilde), approaches Brody and chides him about his apparent fear of water. "That’s some bad hat, Harry," Brody replies, annoyed. Young Alex (Jeffrey Voorhees) takes his inflatable, yellow raft and asks his mother if he can take it out in the water. With her consent, he rushes into the surf. While Brody continues to keep watch, the beachgoers continue their fun, splashing loudly. The young man who had been playing with his dog calls to the unresponsive pooch, the fetching stick floating in the water. All at once Brody notices a large, grey object emerge out of the water and overturn the young boy on his yellow raft. Alex is tossed into the water and pulled under as his blood turns the sea red. The other swimmers begin screaming and leave the water as Brody ushers them back to shore. Mrs. Kintner approaches the water's edge, calling for her son. The only response is the lap of waves on the shore, pushing Alex's torn and bloody raft onto the beach.” In jaws, the narrative is simple, Steven Spielberg does not leave much to the imagination and the movie becomes somewhat predictable. Right from the beginning, somebody is attacked by a shark which foreshadows the rest of the story and the expectations. For example he focuses on the air tanks several times throughout the movie giving the audience subtle hints of the rest of the story. The extract opens with a close up of the character, police Chief Martin Brody. We can see characters sitting on a beach wearing swimsuits and sunglasses on a warm summer’s day; our setting has been laid out for us. Within the first couple of seconds of the clip we can see Brody in the

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