Jaws
Stephen Spielberg, the director of Jaws, uses a simple use of
two continuous notes. The music has been adjusted to speed up to create an
excited, anxious, scared feeling. All these feelings create tension within the
audience. This makes the audience feel on edge even though we know what is
likely to happen. When we hear the music we instantly associate it with Jaws. The
music was the main feature of the film due to the association of the two basic
continuous notes with a series of films.
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock, the director of Psycho, uses a sharp tone
to create a feeling which either makes the audience jump with excitement and
fear or to create a feeling which shoots straight through your body. Before the
sharp tone, there is silence until the antagonist strikes and then the sharp
music attacks. This can help the audience infer that there is danger or
violence. It makes the hair on your back stand up and when the film first come
out in 1960, people literally were terrified of this film because it played
with you psychologically.
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