In The Teeth of Jaws

The interviewee in this clip has been framed to the left of the screen off centre. This is a code and convention of documentaries as when interviewing people they are very rarely in the centre of the screen unless they are purposely breaking the codes and conventions.

The mise en scene in this scene has a background with a shark’s mouth open showing its teeth. The screen writer has then been positioned in front to make it look like he is in the mouth of Jaws. This background has been used as it is relevant to the topic of conversation as it is about Jaws and they have used a shark background.

In the documentary there is a frequent use of this sea view cutaway when changing between interviewees. It relates to the top of the interview which is about jaws as it is showing a clip of the sea. They have also edited the jaws music in with this clip which stays in with the theme of the documentary. This cutaway has been used to cover the space where the question has been removed from the interview as it is a code and convention of documentaries to not have it

In the Jaws documentary the questions have been edited out of the final documentary, this is a code and convention of documentaries as the questions are very rarely included in the interviews and the audience only hear the answers. Also a number of different people have been interviewed in the documentary including the author, screen writer, actors and directors which gives the opinions of various cast and crew member about the movie.

Graphics have been used in the documentary to tell the reader who the interviewees are in each interview. The name of the interviewee has been made larger that there profession. Their name is on the first line and their profession on the second. They are also to different colours white and yellow.

Archive material of scenes from the Jaws film have been included in the documentary as cutaways from the interviews, and it relates to what they are taking about in their interviews.