Sound And Music In Jaws

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Sound calls our attention to both the spatial and temporal dimensions of a scene by putting the audience in the scene of the movie. The majority of sound in a film is completed during post-production making it possible to make a scene come to life. Time and space can be captured on film through not only the scene itself but with sound as well. Many films over the last half century use sounds and music to provide the audience with this experience. (Barsam, Monahan 366) A thriller movie like Jaws comes to mind when I think of sounds from a movie that I choose to interpret when playing with my kids in the ocean or in a pool. During the 1975 film once the music starts a soft sound like “dunna, dunna, dunna”, it lets you know that the shark is

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