Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

9 Scenes from 'Jaws' That Will Show You How Spielberg Does Cinematography


Clearly Steven Spielberg is a legendary director with a style all his own, but compared to other filmmakers with cinematic techniques more -- flashy and pronounced than his (I'm looking at you Wes Anderson), it's easy to be unfamiliar with what gives his films that Spielbergness.

See also...

Close-Up

Explore...

How 50 Famous Female Characters Were Described in Their Screenplays

Screenplay Subs

Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

How To Edit: Do The Right Thing - A Video Essay

The First and Final Frames of Famous Films Can Teach Us a Lot about Good Filmmaking

3 Hitchcock Techniques Magnified

How to analyse sound in films

Film: History, Production, and Criticism

Same Scene 5 Ways

Scene Breakdown | Do the Right Thing (Part 1)

New...

Teacher of film studies and/or English

Lead Practitioner in English (established or aspiring)

Student Support Manager (maternity cover)

Teacher of English with responsibility of key stage 3

Stories We Tell - 5 frames analysis

Second in department of English

November 2026 Examinations

Teacher of English - full or part time

Discover...

Cinematography GCSE GCE ZEN Film Studies Sound Engineering NEA No Film School Rear Window Vacancies Component 2 Editing Offscreen2 American Cinema Trips Just For Fun Twitter Old Hollywood Productions Vertigo The Wave

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...