Steven Spielberg's Use Of Sound In Jaws

The same applies to a dramatic scene where the music may be deep and frantic to convey to the audience the feeling of anticipation. A scene i would like to focus on is the scene in which Garry and his father have a final ‘showdown’, if you will, at the front of the house. The scene consists of the father imposing himself on Garry and proceeding to continually beat him down time after time only for Garry to rise up and face his father on each occasion. This scene evoked a feeling of pride and admiration from the audience as to Garry’s courage and determination to convey the message to his father that he is ready to stand on his own two feet and defy him. This is a very powerful scene within the movie which initiated powerful emotions within the audience. All of this was accomplished with the notable absence of music of any form. The omission of music in this scene created an atmosphere in which the dramatic affect was amplified due to the silence.

(106) insert shot: In Into the Wild(2007) an insert shot of the pages in the book about botany is used when Christopher McCandless is trying to see what plants are edible or not. The audience is able to see his anxiety trying to find

Getting sound and stage to work in tandem is tricky, but when achieved, creates lasting, memorable scenes. As an example, in Jurassic Park (1993), there is a scene with a water cup. The cup vibrates and ripples, with the accompaniment of water sounds and the foreboding noises of the t-rex. The t-rex roar is also something to behold, giving a bestial sound, regardless of the screen position

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.

Steven Spielberg used classic linear storytelling in his movies, the narrative in most of his movies were Plot driven and very effective. He is a storyteller always mindful of holding his audience. Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest directors of today. He is master in taking stories and incidents from the past and and rejuvinating them with his own potential.

     The music helped in elaborating this great film. As I mentioned in class different instruments helped create different moods for different scenes in the movie. We heard the cello and the violin to create sadness and remorse. The flute created eeriness and the trumpet created awareness. I thought these were instruments and tools that help make this film extraordinary.

“The most exciting moment is the moment when I add the sound… At this moment, I tremble.” (Akira Kurosawa) Sound is arguably the most important concept in cinema studies, being there ever since the beginnings. It can radically change the way a motion picture is looked at and it can render what the director may sometimes find hard to depict using only his camera. Looking upon silent cinema one discovers an era which wasn’t at all silent, but rich in sound of different forms, from the simple narration of the images shown on screen, accompanied by a piano, to the complex score later composed specifically for that film. An example of that complex score is shown in Sunrise, a film by F.W. Murnau, which lies at the border between silent cinema and sound cinema. Considered to be one of the first films with an actual score, Sunrise is a great example of the multitude of dimensions and effects sound can have.

The second attack is on a small boy in the sea at a crowded beach on

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 use of non-diegetic music, or music that an audience can hear but a character cannot, is prevalent in Tim Burton’s films. In the movie Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, plot is foreshadowed with ominous and foreboding music as the viewers see Wonka’s chocolate. It can be inferred simply from the music that the chocolate will be very important, but not necessarily a good element. Contrasting that, Big Fish uses non-diegetic music to make a conversation between father and son seem extremely emotional and high-spirited.

it broke box-office records to become the biggest money-maker up to that time - and it was the second biggest money maker in all of film history. It brought in $127 million in rental earnings in the year of its release. It also earned six Academy Awards, mostly in technical categories. After the initial impact of the first blockbuster - Jaws (1975), Lucas' Star Wars would again reshape the nature of the blockbuster phenomenon in the years to come.

“Jaws”, a Spielberg epic about a Great White shark terrorizing beachgoers resulted in John Williams creating a soundtrack that is still seen as iconic, and ranks as some of the most terrifying music ever written for the cinema. The simple E-F-E-F bass motif allowed Williams to create a character within the music for the shark. In many parts of the film you never see the shark but the music assures the viewers that he’s there.

Tim burton also uses music is a lot of his movies like charly and the chocolate factory where he uses music to create a fun and catchy songs to eliminate most

While well-crafted sound design and sound effects are so very necessary in the creation of a film, music touches the emotion, the psyche, and the things you cannot see. Sound design and effects don’t do this nearly as efficiently and naturally. Without music it would be much more difficult to follow the emotional ups and downs of a film. (Freer)

In this over the shoulder shot from Spielberg's Jaws- the audience can hear both the conversations in the scene (Brody on the phone and mom and son)- the mise en scene informs the audience which conversation is more important and the mood of the scene by using lense, staging and form. Furthermore the lense is focused more on Brody and the back is slightly blurred out, direction the audience's attention to Brody even though the conversation in the background is audible. Staging is also used to show importance and mood because Brody is in a full frontal position which has the most intimacy, it's like the character is looking at us and asking for attention. Finally the the two windows in the back and the door give a sense of continuity and make