Analysis of the Ways the Director Builds Suspense and Scares the Audience in Jaws
We studied the film “JAWS”, which was made by award winning director
Steven Spielberg.
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“JAWS” was based on Peter Benchley’s number one best-selling novel in
1974. The Plotline for the film is about a police officer, a
scientist, and a grizzled sailor who set out to kill a great white
shark, which has been menacing the seaside community of Amity Island.
The film was set in a seaside resort in America called Amity. The
sign, which first introduces us to Amity Island, tells us that it is
celebrating its 50th annual regatta on the 4th – 10th July 1975. The 4th
July in America is a big public holiday, so it was a very clever idea
to set in when lots of people would be using the beaches. Even though
the first two attacks by the shark were before the annual regatta,
every other attack is during the busy public holiday or after.
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During the film Steve Spielberg uses music, a mysterious shark and
camera techniques such as simultaneous track and zoom, long shot,
close up shots and medium shots to build suspense, tension and scare
the audience.
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The music represents the shark, especially its movements and its
presence. In the title sequence the camera is moving along the seabed
like a shark. Spielberg makes the audience believe that the camera is
viewing things through the sharks eyes, he uses a camera shot called
point of view shot (POV)...
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...ness, Matt Hooper is alive! They both
return to shore happy men, on a raft. The audience will feel their
happiness and relief.
The scariest moment in the film, which took me by surprise, was when
Matt and Brody went out on Matt’s boat in the middle of the night.
They find a shipwrecked fishing boat. Matt goes underwater to
investigate and finds a shark tooth in a chewed hole in the side of
the boat. He takes it away to look at then swims back to the gap and
peers in. Suddenly a dead man with a fish eaten eye, head appears in
the gap. This made me jump because it was the thing I least thought
was going to happen. I thought the shark would, turn up and attack
Matt Hooper or the shark’s eye would be seen peering through the hole.
That would mean that Brody would have been alone, on a boat in the
middle of the night.
Psycho is a suspense-horror film written by Joseph Stefano and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This film was loosely adapted from Robert Bloch’s 1959 suspense novel, Psycho. A majority of the movie was filmed in 1960 at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. Psycho is about Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a secretary from Arizona who steals $40,000 from her employer’s client. She takes that money and drives off to California to meet her lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin) in order to start a new life. After a long drive, she pulls off the main highway and ends up taking refuge at an isolated motel owned and managed by a deranged Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). In Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, symbols, character and point of view are three literary aspects used in the film to manipulate the audience’s emotions and to build suspense in the film.
‘Jaws’ a thriller based on the novel by Peter Benchley, the film was directed by Steven Spielberg. In a beach resort of Amity Island, a young girl named Chrissie is the first victim of the shark’s vicious attack, when it strikes for the second time, the police refuse to put out warning about the shark. It then returns and kills again, the mayor orders the local fishermen to catch the great white shark before it kills even more victims. The fishermen are satisfied when they catch a Tiger shark the mayor reopens the beaches despite the warning from the ichthyologist when he suspects it was from a formidable great white shark. Brody and Hooper and the only fisherman willing to join them to catch the great white set out in the fisherman’s boat only coming face to teeth with the enemy. This film is rated as a 15, and has a running-time of 124 minutes. It was made in the USA, the soundtrack to ‘Jaws’ was a famous two-note piece composed by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák.
tension, but, then there is a jump shot to a party on the beach where
Jaws the classic summer blockbuster, a thriller with the main goal to build up tension and suspense. Director Steven Spielberg, uses specific dialogue to show how his characters are feeling and their emotions. He uses many different kinds of techniques to build up fear and suspense. Such as his use of music, camera angles, and showing the power of the creature.
The article Why We Crave Horror Movies by Stephen King distinguishes why we truly do crave horror movies. Stephen King goes into depth on the many reasons on why we, as humans, find horror movies intriguing and how we all have some sort of insanity within us. He does this by using different rhetorical techniques and appealing to the audience through ways such as experience, emotion and logic. Apart from that he also relates a numerous amount of aspects on why we crave horror movies to our lives. Throughout this essay I will be evaluating the authors arguments and points on why society finds horror movies so desirable and captivating.
they get out of this island as it is surrounded by sea nor can they
Subjective sounds are sounds that do not originate from the environment but can work well to strengthen pacing, story or mood. They can be sounds that the character cannot hear or interact with but instead affect the viewer. Subjective music could be used as a way to create contrast, for example, with typically happy music set against a sad scene.
set on the fourth of July because that is the date of the main holiday
When the boat was initially found by the girls the boys didn’t see it at first, after they find it they become closer friends and this newfound friendship takes the teenagers on an adventure. They not only find a boat and fix it but they also use this boat to guide them into a new territory with the opposite sex. This boat gives them the freedom to do that.
A Film Review on Jaws [IMAGE]"Jaws (Style A)" Movie PosterBased on the novel by Peter Benchley, the film sees New York cop, Martin Brody (played by Schneider is investigating a series of deaths that bear all the blame. evidence of a shark attack. This was originally rated as a PG but when? re-released in a 12. A great opening scene showing Chrissy ‘the stereotypical blonde’. being devoured by the unknown killer, puzzles most reviewers in the question.
Jaws is a really movie about a lot of suspense. The reason I think that Jaws is a really good movie about building suspense is because of three main things. One of the things that has a lot of suspense is Sound. When Jaws, well the shark is under water and is about to attack something or someone the music starts getting loud. Another thing that is really good about building suspense is the Camera Angle. The reason I think the camera angle is good about building suspense is when the camera is on the boat and it's going with the waves it feels like you're really there. The last thing that really draws my attention in the movie that builds suspense is the picture. The reason that the this really draws my attention is because in the film when something bad or a big part of the movie is about to happen the lighting in the movie also makes it feel like you are really there are have a part of what's actually going on.
And the genre of the film is horror or thriller and it is about a great white shark that hunts in the seas of Amity Island. The film is set around the 4th of July in New Jersey. It may be set 4th of July because is their independence day or their freedom from Great Britain. It may be set on the 4th of July because this day is very important or significant for the whole of America. It is celebrated around the whole of America in various ways to celebrate the American tradition. This also creates tension because if people get killed on this day or maybe Christmas it has a greater effect because often people are unaware or not expecting something like this to happen on a day like that.
At he lilliputians he builds a raft which he uses to sail back to England.
Kristi and I were given the key to our room. OUR room. Thank god our parents had decided to get a third room just for us. Unfortunately, it was in a middle hallway, which meant no windows. But on a boat like this, who needed windows?? We got to the door, Level 3--Room 3053, and our bags were sitting neatly outside the doorway. One swipe of the card key in the door and we threw the bags in. Time to explore the rest of the surroundings.
He finds an empty cave on the island, which he uses as his home. He later makes a calendar by taking wood and making a cross and marking a notch in it for each day he is stranded. Using the supplies he fetched from the ship he makes weapons he is able to use for hunting, he also starts to grow some of his own food such as rice and barley.... ... middle of paper ...