A girl runs off and a boy chases her and he falls over. The girl goes swimming and the boy is following her into the water, but she gets attacked by the shark. Spielberg uses non diegetic sound like what the audience can here but the person in the water doesn’t. This music is used whenever the shark is attacking and so when the audience hear that music they know that something is going to happen and they start to feel nervous!…
The film Jaws' is known for its breathtaking soundtrack, which plays the main part in building the tension and fear.…
In the movie, Spielberg shot the movie from a soldier's point of view where the camera moved along with other soldiers." While focusing on the main craft, holding members of Captain Miller’s squad, the camera is positioned at eye-level as it records individual, medium close-up shots of the various soldiers onboard. The camera moves with the boat as it makes its way through the water and provides a visual sensation for the audience of personally being there and gazing into the soldier’s eyes – an emotional connection with the subject is formed”(Goering). This makes the audience feel like they’re right in the battlefield with the characters. Spielberg used different camera techniques to capture the brutality of War. He shot the movie using a desaturated color lens to make the shots seem more realistic. He also used many close up shots to show the horrors of war.In the movie real gun shot sound was used to make it more believable. During the battle scenes, the movie was shot without any music to show the seriousness of it. It also showed the horrific battle scene without demonizing the significance of it. In other part of the scenes music was used. The music made the scenes more…
My recent suspenseful movie I saw was Finding Nemo. Some of things that made this movie suspenseful was the music, lighting, background, and camera angels. The music is played when the shark comes in distance and closer to the characters. First the music very slowly and when it gets louder and louder we feel…
4) Spielberg uses well established dialogue and ques to alert readers the shark is present, thus creating tension and suspense.…
The film ‘Jaws’ is about a shark that goes about eating some people on the beach. The director of the movie is Steven Spielberg. The film is about a great white shark that goes about terrorising the town Amity Islands. A lot of people go out to kill the shark but the only people who succeed are Quint, Brody, and Hooper. In the movie Steven Spielberg uses different techniques in his direction of the movie camera angles, lighting, sound effects and music.…
“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality,” by Tim Burton. Throughout the three movies (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish), Tim Burton has reiterated his style, which is mystery, fantasy, and imagination. These make Burton movies extremely interesting to view because you always wonder what Tim Burton was imagining when he created his next film. His style comes from three properties that every movie should contain, music, shots, and lighting. Throughout this essay, I will explain why these 3 items make his movies so much more entertaining than a movie without those crucial details.…
How does the director Stephen Spielberg use filmic techniques to build suspense and tension in the opening sequence of the film ‘Jaws’?…
Throughout the film, the ship has an explosion and causes the people to fall into the water. Due to the explosion on the ship, most of the people did not know how to swim and a quantity of them drowned. As the film continues, a shark attack takes place. It causes the audience fear and raises the level of excitement towards the public. Rainsford, being the only survivor, leaves the audience wondering. Questioning how Rainsford is the only one who made it out alive out of all of the people. The author also shows a lot of different perspectives of expressing emotions throughout the film. The love interest between the characters begin…
A movie that I have seen that’s another one of Spielberg’s is Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park, is very similar is story style to Jaws. Both are about animals that are terrorizing a group of people, and that group of people try to contain them. When watching Jaws there were many parts of the storyline that remind me of Jurassic Park. There were many times where people were running away from the shark and that reminded me a lot about when people would run away from the dinosaurs. In both movies they had experts that were trying to help the people to find a solution to get the animals contained, or in Jaws case, kill the shark. Each movie was very suspenseful and thrilling, Jurassic Park a little more than Jaws. Spielberg definitely has a specific style when it comes to special effects. It seems that with both movies the special effects were over the top but really good. I think that for the time periods both movies were made the special effects were extremely good, and I would imagine that all of his other movies are the same too. Another…
Steven Spielberg created a film based off the thriller novel, Jaws, by Peter Benchley. Both the movie and the book tell the story of a giant man-eating great white shark and focus on the terror brought to the people of Amity Island. The movie does follow the novel’s main story line closely, however, when a producer turns a book into a film, it’s practical for one to thicken its plot line, and for two, tell the original story. The horror brought by the shark’s attacks are illustrated vividly throughout the text, as the film on the other hand , does not express the genre as the way the text does.…
All of a sudden the man’s boat is tipped over, as well as Michaels, and the shark comes up slowly and grabs him and pulls him under. There is a close-up shot of Michaels face with the expression of fear and shock. The sound of the man’s screaming is heard and then we see Jaws head coming out of the water to grab the man and his leg fall to the bottom of the pond. Already an hour into the two hour film; this is the first time that the director has given us a view of what Jaws looks like. Such suspense has been placed on what this creature looks like and Spielberg delivers it in this shocking scene by not using the non-diegetic sound that we have so far associated with the shark attacks.…
In this essay I will be discussing the theories of Tzvetan Todorov and Vladimir Propp and how they have been applied to the opening scenes of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’.…
Majority of people would agree with the statement—shark is fierce man-eating animals. However, are the sharks really that cold blood in real world? In order to show the real face of the shark, Canadian biologist Rob Stewart made a film—“sharkwater”. In his film, he attempts to convince people that sharks are harmless to human, and he also explores the huge profits of shark fin industry caused overfishing of the sharks. In the most parts of the film, He is trying to protect sharks, and awaking people’s awareness of protecting sharks. This essay will discuss how author persuade readers that sharks should be protected by his emotional appeal, the evidences and personal credibility.…
In the title sequence, the music forebodes something eerie is about to happen. The instruments create a sound similar to a wolf howling. The drum beats whenever the camera focuses on the game or when the game is near. The music imitates many animal sounds. French horns are like elephants.…