Alfred Hitchcock's Jaws Create Suspense

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

“The Misunderstood Shark” was written by Gregory Skomal, a biologist at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and shark fanatic. His article was published by The Wall Street Journal on August 7, 2015. The engaging title, itself grabs the reader’s attention, making the reader feel sympathetic towards the shark. Upon hearing the word, “shark”, an individual may cringe. The author makes a solid claim that our attitudes about sharks are changing, but not towards direction it needs to be. He supports his argument with strong appeals to logos, pathos, and ethos throughout the article.

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.

     The fact that we do not see the shark makes the audience feel quite uneasy, as in a way we are uncertain of what the danger is. It also builds up a lot of fear, from our point of view.

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.

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

Tim Burton is an extraordinary film director of playful yet frightening movies that revolve around a character that is different from the rest. In a Burton movie, the audience will find most characters wearing bright colors with an almost perfect life. However, the character that experiences a significant and prominent adventure is often the protagonist who is different than the other characters, based on their dark and eerie past. Burton is able to smoothly transition from a joyous mood, to a suspicious and creepy mood. For example, Edward Scissorhands is a story about a man named Edward, who has scissors for hands and is brought into the “real world” for the first time in his life. Big Fish focuses on the unbelievable and incredible stories

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.

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

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.

Released in 1975, Jaws was probably one of the best adventure, action, and suspense films of that era. Directed by Steven Spielberg with the following staring main cast members Roy Scheider as "Martin Bordy" (chief police officer), Richard Dreyfuss as "Matt Hooper" (marine biologist), Robert Shaw as "Quint" (local fisherman), Murray Hamilton as "Larry Vaughan" (town mayor). "Jaws" the movie, is not like any other any other fish story. The film is about a gigantic 26 foot shark that has an appetite for people; how horrifying is that? The unusual story takes place on the seasides' of Amity Island. When Chief Brody uncovers the partial body of a teenage girl with shark like bites, Chief Brody contacts a shark specialist to verify if the bite

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.

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

The thematic narration of the shark theme can be expressed as variation which corresponds to the character development of the shark itself. The theme is recurrence throughout the film and has onset and cessation every time the theme is being played. The purpose of the theme serves to acknowledge the presence of the shark even if we can see it on the screen. It always played after the camera focus underneath or the camera focus on the moving objects above the water. There are several scenes in the film that used the shark theme.