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Analyse the ways in which the director builds suspense and scares the audience in the film “JAWS”
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GCSE media coursework Analyse the ways in which the director builds suspense and scares the audience in the film "JAWS" A film director has to make the audience react in a certain way to the film. He can do this by music, lighting, colour etc. In most action-suspense films, the director has to make the music suspenseful, and keep the camera angles from different people's points of view, and show how scared the characters are. The director must also be careful not to make the plot seem unrealistic. "JAWS" is about a man-eating shark and the people of the island "Amity" (Amity means "friendship" in Latin, which means Spielberg could have wanted to create the island as one that is usually happy and friendly.) that the shark stays nearby. It is set in or around the year 1975 (which is when it was filmed) so it seems recent to the audience of that...
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