Thursday, 5 November 2015

Music & Sounds

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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