When I was viewing this documentary, I thought it was interesting as I had seen the film and was interested in how they created the shark as there was no CGI when it was actually made.
The structure of the documentary was in chronological order. The beginning of it was about the concept and how the auther created the idea of the shark attacking, the beginning was also about how the film producers would go about creating the film and how they felt ''it was the adventure of our lives''. The middle of it was the production of it and how they made it such as the cameras and angles and how the made the shark as it wasn't real. Towards the end, it starts to talk about how successful it was in the cinemas, what the film critics thought of it and how the audience felt after they had watched it. This part shows the difference of opinion and that not everybody thought the same about it.
Throughout the documentary, the blue screen was used to put an image behind the interviewees to make it more interesting as these were images of sharks with their
Jaws open. Behind the author, there was the see and behind Spielburg was the posters of the film after it had been made. These all linked in with each other and the film which made it appropriate for the documentary to have them in.
For the camera footage, there was very little b-roll which was mostly archive footage. The interviews were also filmed at different angles such as rule of thirds to make the shot appear more appealing to the audience. There were also location shots of Martha's Vineyard where some of it was shot. For the editing of this documentary, the interviews were edited together in different ways such as going from one to the other or at the beginning it was a clip of one iterview then a clip of the sea and then another clip of a different interview.
The was no voiceover used at all during the documentary as the interviewee's are the ones who tell the story throughout it. The sound however, was the Jaws music used occasionally on the B-Roll/archive footage.
Throughout the documentary there was a lot of still images used such as a paragraph from the book or photographs of the actors used to play the different characters. These were made more interesting as there were effects put on them such as zoom in or out or tilting upwards to see the rest of the image. There was other archive footage like the crew filming the film and footage of the actual film.
The graphics in the documentary were only the graphic overlays for the names when there was a clip of the interview. On this, there was a small square graphic of a shark coming towards the camera, the persons name, and the role they played in the making such as 'the author' or 'producer' etc. To make the names be more appealing, they had drop shadows and the same font for each person.
