1. How To Film A Suspense Scene
- Need to give a story before introducing a suspense scene e.g. the audience sees the tea being poisoned and she is about to drink it.
- Need to give a story before introducing a suspense scene e.g. the audience sees the tea being poisoned and she is about to drink it.
-Try to make you care about the character in some sort of way whether they be good or bad (character has history).
2. 3 Ways Steven Spielberg Builds Nail-Biting Suspense
-Put yourself in the shoes of the moviegoer and ask yourself “what would i want to see”
-Sincere ability to empathise with the audience can enable you to create extremely moving work and also suspenseful moments.
-Subjective and objective to create suspense
-Breaking up the scene with different close ups and swells of music helps to make each step build leading to the final reveal.
-Make it known what is at risk
-Put yourself in the shoes of the moviegoer and ask yourself “what would i want to see”
-Sincere ability to empathise with the audience can enable you to create extremely moving work and also suspenseful moments.
-Subjective and objective to create suspense
-Breaking up the scene with different close ups and swells of music helps to make each step build leading to the final reveal.
-Make it known what is at risk
-Panned shots can help establish distance and keeps tension going
-Cutaway shots sustain the tension by stretching the time
-A distraction may be introduced to create an almost problem
-Small objects may appear large signifying their importance to the scene.
-Mis en scene can be set out to represent characters emotions
3. How Hitchcock Creates Suspense
-The audience needs information from the director, without it suspense is not possible.
-Bomb Theory, suspense should be prolonged whereas shock should only be a “10 second shock period”
-Create a pattern with your film and the rising tension/suspense
-Cutaway shots sustain the tension by stretching the time
-A distraction may be introduced to create an almost problem
-Small objects may appear large signifying their importance to the scene.
-Mis en scene can be set out to represent characters emotions
3. How Hitchcock Creates Suspense
-The audience needs information from the director, without it suspense is not possible.
-Bomb Theory, suspense should be prolonged whereas shock should only be a “10 second shock period”
-Create a pattern with your film and the rising tension/suspense
Hi Kayla
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I love that you are obviously grasping the concepts and techniques for how the pro's create suspense. You have extracted the main points and communicated well that you understand what they've done and why.
The only thing missing here is the second part of the question which was to find openings to films that use techniques you'd like to trial in your PT2. This could have been camera angles, the music used etc.
Also, in future with blog posts for homework like this, as requested in the brief, please put them in some kind of blog tool to continue demonstrating your progress in gaining online presentation tools.