How does Spielberg create tension in the movie “Jaws”?
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How does Spielberg create tension in the movie "Jaws"? The film "Jaws" was made in the year 1975 by the director Steven Spielberg. At this time he did not have available to him any C.G.I special effects, but despite this he managed to instil in his audience a sense of fear, tension and many other emotions. He did this using a series of techniques such as music and camera angles. In the film "Jaws" we are immediately shown the first killing of Chrissie, this shows us the power of the shark and initialises the idea that the sharks signature music means that the shark is about to attack or is nearing, we are shown 2 more attacks like this before Quint, Brody and Hooper go out to kill the shark. When they go out to kill the shark we are shown things that we had not seen...

