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How does the director build suspense and scare the audience in the film jaws  

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How does the director build suspense and scare the audience in the film jaws The film is called "Jaws", which is about a very large shark, that's attacking people in the town of Amity. The film is set in 1975 and is building up to the 4th of July, Independence Day in America. With Amity being a seaside town with a large beach and it coming up to Independence Day, it is going to be more heavily populated for the holidays, which is good news for a hungry shark. I think Spielberg uses music very well to build suspense in this film, the theme music is very good because the pace can be sped up or slowed down to give the desired effect . In the opening sequence music is used to build suspense the theme music starts off slowly and you don't even see the shark, but the music immediately...

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