Analysis of sound in Jaws

Jaws ia an excellent example to show parrallel sound in a thriller. The film's score was composed by John Williams whom won the oscar for best original score for this film. At the start of the scene it shows Chrissie and her boyfriend running towards the sea, there is no score st this point, we can only hear the ambient sound. As soon as Chrissie enters the water the score starts. At first there are many shots taken of her swimming from under the water with the sun shining through the water showing a silouhette of Chrissie as she swims. At this point the score is very majestic and pleasent with a slightly mysterious undertone and after a while the underwater camera starts to get closer to Chrissie and as this happens the iconic string instruments slowly come in and as the cmaera gets closer to chrissie the strings start to speed up creating a build up of dramtic tension.Throughout this whole scene the shark who kills Chrissie is never actually scene which may seem slightly odd to some people but the fact that it isn't seen in this sequence makes it slightly scarier as not revealing the shark makes it more enigmatic and mysterious and build tension between the spectator and Jaws.