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    How does the director Stephen Spielberg use filmic techniques to build suspense and build tension for the audience in the film Jaws? Stephen Spielberg is a very famous director and well known for his high budget action films. The film that will scare anyone and live on for generations is the terrific Jaws‚ the first ever block bluster in 1975. His tagline was very catchy and ment something to people as in when people went to see Jaws‚ to then go on holiday they did exactly what it said “Don’t

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    Analyse the ways that the director builds suspense and scares the audience in the filmJaws’ The film Jaws was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1975. It was a good film at the time‚ and still is because Steven Spielberg is known for creating films that build suspense and scare people. Jaws is about a shark that attacks people on the beach at a fictional holiday resort‚ called Amity island. Jaws was set on the 4th of July‚ because it was Independence Day and that is a holiday in America when

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    Background Steven Spielberg‚ who was at the beginning of his career‚ directed jaws. On June 20th‚ 1975‚ Steven Spielberg near the beginning of his career released the soon-to-be summer blockbuster. (Choi and “The Making of Jaws”). Steven Spielberg started his career on a television drama entitled “Eyes”. Though because of his young age and inexperience‚ actors would not listen and he had little respect from the cast. This led Spielberg to quit the show (Gottfried 34-36). Short after this in 1971

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    Non-Diegetic Soundtrack in Jaws In Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975)‚ Spielberg uses non-diegetic soundtrack to add suspense and excitement to his film and to cue the audience to when the shark enters certain scenes or shots. In this classic blockbuster‚ non-diegetic soundtrack makes Jaws the intense‚ frightening film Spielberg envisioned it to be. This is seen in the shots in which Matt Hooper and Quint pull aboard a rope they have attached to the shark‚ the shark swims away from Hooper as he rests

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    Synopsis Steven Spielberg was born on December 18‚ 1946‚ in Cincinnati‚ Ohio. An amateur filmmaker as a child‚ Spielberg went on to become the enormously successful and Academy Award-winning director of such films as Schindler’s List‚ The Color Purple‚ E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Saving Private Ryan. In 1994‚ he cofounded the studio Dreamworks SKG‚ which was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 2005.Early Career Filmmaker‚ director and producer Steven Spielberg was born on December 18‚ 1946

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    Steven Allan Spielberg was born in Cincinnati‚ Ohio on December 18‚ 1946‚ to an Orthodox Jewish family. In 1953‚ the family moved to Phoenix‚ AZ where Steven Spielberg went to Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957. In his early teen years‚ Spielberg made his first home movie of a train wreck with his toy Lionel trains. Growing up‚ Spielberg had made nine-minute 8 mm film and one of his films was entitled The Last Gunfight. As Steven Spielberg grew up in Phoenix‚ he would charge admission to his

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    Steven Spielberg has a reputation of creating great movies‚ he has this standing because he has made numerous remarkable movies throughout his career but the movie that kick started his box office career was “JAWS”. “JAWS” was his first movie that broke box office records and gave him the reputation he has today. The movie “JAWS” starts with two young adults that go skinny-dipping at a beach in Amity‚ an island close to New York City. One of them is killed in the water and the head of police; Martin

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    How effective are the techniques in the filmJaws” The filmJaws’ is about a shark that goes about eating some people on the beach. The director of the movie is Steven Spielberg. The film is about a great white shark that goes about terrorising the town Amity Islands. A lot of people go out to kill the shark but the only people who succeed are Quint‚ Brody‚ and Hooper. In the movie Steven Spielberg uses different techniques in his direction of the movie camera angles‚ lighting‚ sound effects

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    How does Steven Spielberg make the opening scene of Jaws so dramatic? Introduction: ‘Jaws’ is a Blockbuster hit and is still going strong‚ even though it was released in 1975. It was directed by Steven Spielberg. It was his first blockbuster hit and a brilliant way to start off his career. The genre of the film is a Thriller. It is a very clever Thriller a mix of suspense and ‘goryness’. The film ‘Jaws’ was based on novel called ‘A Stillness in the Water’‚ written by Peter Benchley. Peter Benchley

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    Steven Spielberg And the Oscar goes to..? Steven Spielberg‚ a Director‚ a Writer‚ and a Producer‚ Spielberg is one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film. He’s worked on over 104 films and they’ve all been BIG hit filmsFilms like E.T.‚ Gremlins‚ Jurassic Park‚ Back to the Future‚ Men in Black‚ Shrek‚ and Transformers; but those are only a couple of his more popular films he’s worked with. He’s done a lot to be where he’s at today‚ He came from no-where and nothing

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