Analyse The Ways The Director Builds Suspense And Scares The Audience In The Film Jaws.
‘Jaws’ is a 1975 American horror thriller film, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a best-selling novel by Peter Benchley. ‘Jaws’ is set at Amity Island of USA. The film is about a police chief Martin Brody of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town; Brody just like other police chief’s tries to protect his people and tourists from a giant white shark by closing the beach although he is overruled by the town council who want the beach to remain open, so that the town can make profit from tourists during the summer season. The reason for this is that on the 4th July 1776, the declaration on independents of America was approved by the Contental Congress. So therefore Americans use this day to celebrate and people go on holidays that were to be marked by parades. After several attacks, Brody realises its driving him insane to see all those people suffer from the shark so he asks a marine biologist Matt Hooper and a professional shark hunter Quint to help him capture and kill the giant shark and stop all the freights people at Amity Island are getting.
The music of ‘Jaws’ is written by John Williams. The choice of music John has made is very interesting and easy to pick out or even memories. The main "shark" theme has its own simple alternating pattern of two notes, E and F and it’s also a classic piece of suspense music with approaching danger. The soundtrack piece was performed by a tuba player. But however John has written it to sound rather dramatic. In the music sequence whenever the shark is near its prey or attacking, its own theme tune is made to build up tension during this. The music is made in a certain way to scare the audience as it is made to represent the shark’s heart beat. You know it's the shark and that something is obviously going to happen although at some parts of the movie it does trick you by playing the music but nothing exciting happens. Two other examples of music or silence is used to scare the audience to build up tension is...
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