Suspense and Shock

Suspense is a feeling of excitement or anxiousness, also a uncertainty of what is going to happen. This can happen at any time of the film where there is a lead up to a big event or dramatic moment, this is what builds up tension for the viewers.

Shock is similar to suspense as when you are shocked it catches the audience attention and usually the audience is focused on the film. Shock is to strike with great surprise and emotional disturbance. It is a moment of fear where the next part of the scene is going to be shocking.

An example of this could be Sabotage made in 1963, director of this is also Alfred Hitchcock. A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur where a bomb is suppose to be set in London. A boy has a wrapped up box which has got a bomb inside where it explodes on a bus. But when the detective's cover is blown this is when everything starts to unravel.