Jaws/Creating Viewing Guide

Creating your own viewing guide: CRAFTING QUESTIONS

• After you complete your note taking, you are ready to create a viewing guide. viewing guide questions point to and ask about specific scenes, characters, camerawork, music, editing, lighting, etc. These are not plot questions! Appropriate questions to ask are questions like "why did the director make this choice?" and "what effect does this choice have on the viewer?"
• For Jaws, let's do this together.

Your Final: Choose your own film to bring in, watch it, take notes, and then create your own viewing guide. Look and study the viewing guides I have created and given you the past quarter—they are a great model.

• Use charts, fill-ins, questions, scene breakdowns, etc.
• Ask questions that guide someone to break down scenes or the film
• Ask questions that refer to why a director made a certain choice or how it affects the audience
• Address a variety of film concepts-Focus on lighting, editing, camera angles, sound, camera movement, etc. USE YOUR FILM TERMS.

Fun/other stuff concerning Jaws:

• Great analysis of Jaws from Empire Magazine
• What if Jaws was a romance?
• Jaws re-enacted by bunnies...in 30 seconds