How do I describe how characters in a film build tension on the audience?
- Friday Nov 20,2009 03:27 PM
- By diddy
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I’m doing a Essay on Jaws for English I’ve done the first 3 paragraphs but i don’t no how the characters in the film help build tension on the audience. I’ll appreciate if you’ll tell me how to
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jaws’ theme builds tension as it replaces the shark with an ominous piece of famliar music to make the film audience think he’s near in the scene. music can build tension. I studied this in my final year of uni. The term to describe this recurring piece of music which is Jaw’s theme is called a leitmotif… – ‘ a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.’ (dictionary.com)
here’s a really good website that helped me in uni which is all about film sound: http://www.filmsound.org
and here is a page below about the leitmotif also known as character or sound motif
I have not seen the movie in a while, but I definitely know that you could use the shark as a character, and well it’s pretty obvious how it put tension on the audience. Sorry for the lack of help, good luck!
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