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From the film opening I could tell that Spielberg took a lot of innovating to pull one of cinema’s most famous opening. Spielberg used a lot of planning and special effects in order to portray a monstrous, great white shark. The actress Susan Blacklinie had hooks attached to her legs so that divers could pull her down to get that "jerked by a Great White" effect. In my film opening, I am definitely using special effects and stunts to portray something greater than normal, could be a creature of some sort or an extensional crisis. I am also going to do a lot of innovating (exactly what Spielberg did) to really have my audience engage in my film opening. I am already planning some ideas that I should follow and stay consistent with throughout my opening video:
Film opening planning ideas:
1. Use of special effects to portray something greater than normal
2. Use of stunts to portray something more realistic and exaggerated
3. Use of high/low angles to portray greater/smaller characters
Spielberg also used amazing camera shots and angles to portray an effective "predator’s eye view" to put the audience inside the point of view of the hungry mind of the Great White shark. In JAWS, Spielberg’s camera mostly occupies the perspective of the creature. In my opening, I might want to do a point of view shot to have the audience see in the eyes of a character to create more intimacy between the audience and the film.
In Peter Benchley’s bestselling book "JAWS" a few of the opening lines reads,
“The great fish moves silently through the night.”
“At first, the woman thought she had snagged her leg on a rock or a piece of floating wood”
“There was no initial pain, only one violent tug on her right leg. She reached down to touch her foot, treading water with her left leg to keep her head up, feeling in the blackness with her left hand.”
Then comes the realization...
“She could not find her foot.”
-Peter Benchley
I would love to have this type of anticipation in my film opening. This movie includes a lot of anticipation and wanted expectations that really helped me come to that decision.
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