Jaws is a 1975 American thriller text composed by Steven Spielberg. Jaws tells the story of a Great White Shark terrorizing the small island community of Amity. Now considered one of the greatest shark thrillers ever made, Spielberg has followed in Alfred Hitchcock’s footsteps through using many of his thriller concepts in Jaws.
Jaws demonstrates that thriller texts are combined with a variety of different codes and conventions. Whilst trying to create suspense in Jaws, Spielberg was using a strategy used by Alfred Hitchcock. "A bomb is under the table, and it explodes, that is surprise, the bomb is under the table but it does not explode, that is suspense." (Alfred Hitchcock,) You do not see the shark for most of the movie therefore Spielberg is leaving the shark ‘under the table’. Many of its appearances in the later part of the
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The musical piece represents a shark chasing or creeping up on its prey. Music and silence is often used to form tension, to scare the audience. Non-diegetic sound helps by building extra tension or by setting a mood. For example, the dramatic, non-diegetic sound put over the top of the title classification scene, helps to build tension for the audience. This is due to fact that the music represents the shark, therefore, when the music comes on again during the movie, the audience knows the shark is coming. The producers of Jaws were able to bring fear to the audience through the location they have set the text in. Jaws was set in Amity which is a secluded island which is surrounded by water, this is effective because when the shark attacks, the people in the town feel isolated and vulnerable. Furthermore, it makes the people in the town feel trapped due to the island being enclosed by water. This heightens the fear the audience has for the town as they the viewers can see there is not a way
Hooper brings along a lot of his very expensive marine-biologist equipment to help them find this beast quicker. Also, they bring along some chum to attract the shark more easily. After being idle for some time, Brody and his crew finally see sign of the shark. The shark bites into the boat, and swallows up Quint in the process. At that point, Hooper is under water in the anti-shark cage attempting to stab the shark. Before the ship sinks, the Ultimate Boon occurs when Brody shoots a compressed air tank while it is in the shark 's mouth.
This film also used countless props; however, there is truly only one that needs to be discussed, and goes by the name of Jaws. This massive great-white shark was a 26 foot mechanical beast. This enormous steel gutted fish was connected to a crane arm which allowed the shark to tread just underneath the surface of the water at a rapid rate. This gives the realistic feel of the amount of power this shark has; being able to swim at such rates of speed. This adds to the fright element of movie because we all know that big animals can be intimidating. Animals that are big and fast are even scarier. Animals that are big, fast, and hungry, are a force to be reckoned with.
The opening scenes of the film Jaws (Steven Spielberg 1975), one of the main characters chief Martin Brody is introduced. Chief Brody is new to the town and main concern is keeping the people and the water safe. The mayor main concern at first is to keep the revenue coming in, which is keeping the beaches open for visitors. The small town Amity Island, a fictional New England town, busy season is the summer. The films primary conflict, which is a series of shark attacks in a small time frame, is what drives the film to the main turning point. However, by the end of the film we see Chief Brody’s character change drastically to achieve the town’s main goal, which is to have the beaches safe for visitors.
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) and his other film Jurassic Park (1993) both contain a major theme of what makes a successful hero in society. In Jaws, police chief Martin Brody must successfully eliminate the threat of a Great White Shark from attacking Amity Island. In Jurassic Park, billionaire John Hammond creates a theme park where cloned dinosaurs come alive, hoping that his ideal resort becomes a major success. Through the use of film style elements, such as editing and mise-en scene, Spielberg develops Brody’s character as a person who must learn from his past mistakes in order to become a successful hero while Spielberg creates Hammond’s character as a man who only sees himself as a hero of science and technology without realizing
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg when Jaws was first released it was received by the critics as the film to watch at the time because it did such a profound job at putting fear in audiences around the world and today is considered one of the greatest films ever made. The film jaws does a great job at appealing to the psychological needs of it's viewer because its ability to build suspense in the film because the shark is never really shown till near the end of the film which creates a question of how it looks, and how big and dangerous it is and keeps the viewers thinking throughout the whole movie installing a psychological effect because you never really know the severity of the situation
Director, screenwriter, and producer, Stephen Spielberg, has been often described by critics as being one of the trailblazers who paved the way for the new Hollywood era. In fact, one of Spielberg’s earliest films, JAWS, captured the audience’s attentions so vividly that the movie remains to be a cult classic even decades later. The audience sunk its teeth deep into the enticing combination of drama, thrill, science-fiction, and adventure the film obtained. At face value, JAWS appears to be focused on a giant monstrous fish, but with further analyzation of the plot structure, narration, and original music demonstrates the brilliance and complexity of why JAWS is a well deserving Oscar-winning movie.
In the film jaw Steven spielberg uses a blend of tracking and low angle shots to show what is happening and a mix of non diegetic sound and lots of low angle shots to provide you with the feeling of being underwater to give you the feeling of suspense and you can also tell from their costumes they were in a rush to get ready because everything was kind of falling then again when she was going to swim. As soon as the scene starts their is an element of suspense throughout the way they were dressed as if they were in a big rush to go swim which makes you think why were they doing this. There is also the fact when she starts getting attacked by the shark the music gets faster giving you the feeling of being on edge ultimately creating suspense.
The movie Jaws played a big role in the perception of how people look at sharks, Because they showed the evil that sharks can do. When in reality, there’s only 19 shark attacks each year and 2 fatality’s every 2 years. The media portrays sharks as some evil demon like fish that once it see anything it will eat it such as a boat, adults, kids, etc. Movies have depicted sharks by presenting sharks in a evil in bad way that makes people think that because they have a lot of teeth in a big mouth that they can just eat everything as it pleases. When in reality, the reason people get attacked by sharks is because the way it looks to a shark underneath the water from below when someone is on a surfboard in there legs are out it looks like a seal.
Michael Bay and his writing staff took all of the stories and accounts told by the survivors and tried to instill each story into the film somehow. Many of the suggested stories and recollections were used in the film. Bay felt for the movie to be its most compelling that the story of the survivors had to be told in its entirety. This also added to the sense of reality that Bay wanted to convey to the audience.
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 shark’s eyes, he uses a camera shot called point of view shot. The music makes the shark seem a mystery because you haven’t yet seen the shark but you can feel its presence. The music clouds your vision and makes you imagine and believe something that actually isn’t even there. It builds tension
The use of music/sound annotate the mood and help create the feeling that Burton is trying to deliver to the audience. Burton adds tranquility to his films with non-diegetic sound in Edward Scissorhands. When Peg enters through the gates of a dark, sinister looking mansion, she unexpectedly finds herself in a beautiful garden with bushes that have creative and incredible designs. After Peg notices the decorative garden she is standing in, nice calming music plays in the background. The sound of the angelic and harmonious chorus relates to the peaceful and serene garden. The music notifies the audience that although the mansion looks terrifying, the beautiful garden indicates the contrast between the two. This gives the audience a sense of tranquility as Peg reaches the door. However, once Peg enters the mansion, Burton returns to the eerie and creepy non-diegetic sounds. The chorus begins to get louder while repeating the same beat to add tension and anticipation on what will happen to Peg. With the help of the piano, Burton establishes the new frightening mood after creating a cheerful mood. Peg’s adventure to the mansion is much more exciting for the audience, with the use of non-diegetic sound. Burton utilizes music/sound in Big Fish as well. When Edward takes a shortcut to Spectre through an odd looking path in the woods, Edward suddenly finds trouble along the way. Burton
throughout the movie, there were many issues and good examples of the element of the film but the three specific examples that I thought did a good job at helping tell the story were the movies Visual effects, music/sound effects and the time and space. Jaws does a great job in really showing the viewer a whole new aspect of visual effects starting from creating realistic characters, gore, and action. The way they depicted the scene where the fisherman is eaten by jaws really shocked many of it's viewers because they made it look identical the of a real great white shark. Visual effects weren't all that made jaws a great film its excellent music/sounds effects was majority of the reason why jaws was able to instill fear in its viewers, jaws
Next, you see a shot of the girl kicking her legs, and the camera slowly zooms in. This shows the view from the shark’s point of view, and shows the audience that the danger is getting closer, which is certainly building the tension up.
In the next scene, the shark character develops to become more aggressive when it attacks a boy in crowded. The way the camera shows the shark is approaching same as the shark attack on Chrissie. The onset of the theme is when the shark approaching the boy from underneath and the theme stopped for a moment when the boy can no longer being seen. It continues again when everyone got panic and started to get out of water.
Shark attacks still happen to this day. There’s nothing more terrifying than hearing a story in the news of a mighty, great white shark killing an innocent person. He mentions the backlash of Hollywood blockbusters such as “Jaws” and “Sharknado 3” that intensifies one’s fear. Sharks have evolved in our