Sink your teeth into a copy of Joe Alves: Designing Jaws

We’ve teamed up with our friends at TITAN BOOKS to offer you the chance to win a copy of Joe Alves: Designing Jaws by Dennis Prince.

Universal Studios’ Jaws is one of the most compelling and enduring movies ever made, thrilling generations of audiences worldwide with its tight plot, memorable characters and ground-breaking special effects that brought the great white shark to terrifying life, even after many said it couldn’t be done. Buoyed by an energetic young director, Steven Spielberg, and through collaboration with trusted and equally determined production designer Joe Alves, the two proved integral to the making of this classic motion picture.

Joe Alves: Designing Jaws provides the production designer’s view into the development of this world-renowned film. Included are Joe’s stunning pre-production illustrations, handwritten location and production notes, on-set photographs, blueprints of the shark’s design and first-time publication of his complete catalogue of storyboards used to chart the heart-stopping action. Painstakingly compiled and written by Joe Alves biographer and Jaws expert Dennis Prince, Joe Alves: Designing Jaws is a must-have addition to every film reference library.

To win a copy of Joe Alves: Designing Jaws simply answer this question:

• What is the real name of the Jaws bridge?

Email your answer to filmcompetitions@bfi.org.uk with JAWS in the subject header by 30 April.