The opening scene of Jaws starts with the opening credits. These are shown by a simple white text on a plain black background. This doesn’t give the audience any idea to what genre the film is, but the non-diegetic orchestral music gives suspense to the film and makes the genre look more towards horror. The first shot is a tracking shot from underwater, this tells the audience that the film is going to be based on the sea or a lake or something where a water predator would live. The main part to the beginning part of this film is the music as it holds all the suspense and genre of the film, without the music the audience would still not know what type of film they are about to watch. The music starts to get louder and faster which makes us think that something is about to happen. The opening credits are showing the audience that something is about to happen as the movements are very slow. It makes the film seem very mysterious as the audience doesn’t know who or what is under the water. The opening credits then cut to teenagers on a beach at night having what looks like a bonfire party, playing music and this takes away from the suspense opening credit we have just seen and makes everyone more relaxed as nothing bad has happened. Although this film doesn’t show much in the opening credits or give much away to what the film is going to be about the audience gets an idea that the film is going to be a horror film because of the music. This type of film is different to most new horror films you see now, as this film was released in 1987 the technology to produce high quality scenes wasn’t possible, so they only way they could bring across the fact the film was a horror was from sound, which is very important in this film.
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