Discussing Jaws

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Steven Spielberg made a film called jaws. The film is about a hungry shark that goes around destroying objects such as boats and attacking people. In the film lots of people try and stop these attacks such as Brody but do not succeed until later on in the film. Jaws is very sneaky and has sly ways about him therefore he is very hard to catch. Parts in the film jaws are surprising for all types of audience.  Most of the scenes in the film jaws, is in, or to do with the sea. Jaws is set on the 4th of July because that was the day America came independent, big bank holiday. There were lots of people enjoying themselves in the sea, being loud and splashing. Unfortunately this behaviour attracts sharks such as jaws. The basic aim of the film is to create fear and tension between the audience. It is very skilful and creative how we do not see the shark until the 3rd attack but we do see the sharks p.o.v the audience are picturing jaws in there minds, which makes the film more scary for them. The audience are constantly sitting on the edges of their seats wondering what is going to happen next in the film.

In the title sequence the shark is connected to the music because the audience knows when you are going to see the shark. It puts pressure on the audience because they just want to shout out loud at the television when the shark is there because the audience are oblivious. When you watch the film up to the first attack it feels like you are inside the shark swimming through the weeds. Because it only shows us the sharks p.o.v it has simple music to build up suspense and tension towards the audience. The music is not happy, jolly music its scary, deep, minor key, haunted music. The same music comes on every time there is sight or a sign of the shark or there is an attack going to happen. Silence is also a good way to scare the audience because they are clueless of what is going to happen next this often happens after attacks, the audience are left guessing the next scene in there heads.

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The camera is used to build tension and scare the audience in many ways. When the little boy asks his mum if he can stay in the water and his mum says ten more minutes so the boy scuttles off, the audience have an idea that something is going on. The audience gets anxious because the mum has sent the boy in danger.

 Also when brody is watching the water, it is a close up camera shot. Brody has clicked or so he thinks. He has an idea of what is happening. This is intense. He doesn’t want ...

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