Jaws Creation Questions

Jaws Creation Questions

1.       The idea for Jaws originated from the idea, of a gigantic shark that would never leave a shore. This story came from a recent fishing of a 450 pound shark off Long Island. The main origin you could say is from the novel written by Peter Benchley

2.       Particular scenes were removed from the film because they were too violent and horrendous and it was just bad taste.

3.       During the pre-production stage the production commissioners produce footage of a real shark tangled in the chains of the empty shark cage, which then escaped and the cage dropped to the ocean floor. The script changed to when the shark broke the cage from the boat there was no man inside.

4.       During the casting process, Spielberg first sought after the actors he thought could fulfil the actor’s role the best, these are his preferred choices. For Chief Brody, Ray Schneider overheard a conversation regarding Jaws, and volunteered himself to act that character. For Hooper, Richard was firstly contacted, but he turned the offer down. After better look at himself, he decided to take the job. When selecting Quint, he was suggested Robert Shaw who Spielberg ended up choosing.

5.       Location scouting is looking for a location which you wish to shoot your film that suits its needs. Steven Spielberg chose the location for his film because it had shallow waters so the mechanical shark could function and when you were out at sea, you wouldn’t be able to see land which the characters could potentially head back to.

6.       The actor Ray Schneider contributed to the production of Jaws by saying the quote “We’re going to need a bigger boat”. This wasn’t in the script, but it was incorporated into the film.

7.       A composer creates music for the film. The considerations that were taken into music for the creation of Jaws were that they wanted to advertise the presence and absence of the shark with the music.

8.       Spielberg reshot a scene as a result of test screenings. He reshot the scene with Ben Gardner’s head popping out of the hull of a boat.

9.       The director of photography is the person who decides what kind of camera focus, angles and effects of the camera to use. During Jaws, the D.O.P hand-held the camera while resting in on his knees and body to film.

10.   An editor cuts film and puts it together. The editor for jaws was Verna Fields. Her job was to finish the movie.

11.   Based on the documentary, the responsibilities of a producer is to decide what scenes will happen in the film, what kind of actions, script etc will be used.

12.   Once principal photography has finished, producers must edit and test the film to finalize it. They will then distribute the film.

13.   The production designer in this film went out with a team to collect ideas, photographs and pictures of the town where the film could be shot.