Fittingly for a moment of -albeit false - celebration, the colour palette is bright and vivid. Newspaper editor Harry Meadows, who is vainly trying to organise a group photograph, is wearing a rich burgundy jacket and deep red slacks. There's a man in an orange life jacket, a man in a pale green sweater and to the far right of the frame a woman in a neon pink jacket. As the camera pans with Meadows and his note-taking assistant (in a blue jacket and tartan trousers), a woman is seen at the edge of the crowd wearing a yellow sweater with matching blouse and hairband - a subliminal message that the danger has not yet passed. Towards the end of the scene when Mrs Kintner confronts Brody yellow becomes the dominant background colour.
Brody and Hooper walk into shot and the camera tilts upwards to catch the chief's smile of relief as he pauses to look at the dead fish. This is contrasted with a cut to Hooper, framed by the wrinkled carcass of the shark, frowning. As he turns away out of shot to the right his place is taken by a grinning Brody, who surveys the fish and asks, 'Ben Gardner get this?' This is, in fact, the first mention of the character's name and the audience has no way of connecting it to the bulky man in the camouflage jacket who led the posse of fisherman out on the hunt.
As Brody congratulates the men who caught the fish Hooper goes about checking the bite radius with a tape measure he has conveniently to hand. There is a cut to our first sighting of the Orca as it passes the dock with Quint alone at the wheel. A US yacht ensign flag flies from the stern of a berthed boat in the foreground, and in the background, on the other side of the channel, is a white lighthouse, like the one that will play an explosive part in the next Peter Benchley film adaptation. There is another cut to more shots of the crowd milling about and Harry Meadows, seen through a forest of fishing rods, finally begins to bring some order to the scene, telling the men in the first row to kneel down 'just like in high school.'. We then cut back to a closer shot of Quint sailing past. He touches the tip of his cap and gives a brief cackle of derision as he surveys the circus. Hooper is told to move out of the shot and the photograph - which will later appear blown up to the size of a billboard on the town beach front - is finally taken.
