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Essay / Amity Island beach scene in Jaws movie scene
The scene cuts to children splashing in the water closer to the foreground at the bottom of the frame as a shark fin is visible as it engulfs the child in the background closer to the top half of the frame. The attack is almost obscured by the children splashing in the ocean to visualize what it must have looked like for spectators on the beach. The scene then cuts to a shot of a crowd of people on the beach reacting to the attack. The purpose of this photo is to show that people on the beach are beginning to notice the attack but that the boy's mother is not yet aware of the situation as she continues to look down and read her book. The scene cuts to an extremely long shot where the boy struggles as the shark pulls him down and blood begins to fill that part of the ocean. This shot then cuts to a point of view of the shark where the boy is visibly pulled down and blood begins to flow. The continuity error here is that in the previous shot the blood has already been spilled.