Suspense & Shock
Suspense and shock are different outcomes which is a result from something.
Building up to suspense allows the audience to question what could happen next, therefore suspense is a long lasting build up. For example picture the following scene in your head, there's a classroom full of students and a teacher. The camera reveals that there's a bomb under the table to the audience, the students and teacher are oblivious to this. This therefore creates questions will the students and teacher be saved? Will the bomb go off?
So in a film you can be shocked by something, this emotion is quick and not long lasting. For example imagine the same scenario as the suspense example, where there are children in a classroom with their teacher, instead of the camera revealing the bomb under the table, it explodes without warning, killing everyone, the audience are then shocked by the outcome.
The 1936 film, Sabotage, by Alfred Hitchcock displays an understanding of suspense. A young boy is told to deliever a package to a certain place (a train station), by a certain time. He is oblivious that the package holds a bomb within. The boy's journey creates a build up of tension and suspense, as the audience knows more than what the young boy knows. Questions are created such as; Will the boy arrive at the train station on time? Will the boy die?
Other films by Hitchcock that created suspense in thrillers were 'The 39 Steps (1935)' and 'Northby North west (1959)'
So in a film you can be shocked by something, this emotion is quick and not long lasting. For example imagine the same scenario as the suspense example, where there are children in a classroom with their teacher, instead of the camera revealing the bomb under the table, it explodes without warning, killing everyone, the audience are then shocked by the outcome.
The 1936 film, Sabotage, by Alfred Hitchcock displays an understanding of suspense. A young boy is told to deliever a package to a certain place (a train station), by a certain time. He is oblivious that the package holds a bomb within. The boy's journey creates a build up of tension and suspense, as the audience knows more than what the young boy knows. Questions are created such as; Will the boy arrive at the train station on time? Will the boy die?
Other films by Hitchcock that created suspense in thrillers were 'The 39 Steps (1935)' and 'Northby North west (1959)'
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