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Analyse the ways that the director builds suspense and scares the audience in the film Jaws.
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Media coursework essay Analyse the ways that the director builds suspense and scares the audience in the film Jaws. Jaws the 1975 blockbuster film directed by Steven Spielberg. The screenplay, written by Spielberg and Carl Gottlieb based on a book by Peter Benchley of the same name. The film portrays a rogue killer great white shark, which stalks the waters around the town of Amity on Long Island - a busy holiday resort. The three major characters that eventually track the shark are: - Chief Brody played by Roy Scheider - the towns' principle police chief, who is an outsider to the town as he originally lived in New York. He doesn't like water as he has a childhood fear of drowning. Hooper played by Richard Dreyfuss - a marine biologist. Quint played by Robert Shaw - a grizzly fisherman and WWII veteran who is obsessed to hunt and kill the great white shark, he...
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