Notes on videos:
Part 1:
Video 1:-A lot of beginners make the mistake in suspense of not giving the audience the information they need at the start or beginning of the scene or story for the suspense to work or be effective.
Video 2:
- Spielberg's ability to empathise with the audience allows him to create very suspensful moments.
- Spielberg jumps between subjective and objective perspective to create suspense.
- By breaking up the action into a series of close ups, punctuated by swells of music each step of Quins process builds tension and suspense.
- in the movie 'the color purple' pans during the shot of the woman shaving her husband to, establish the shot from 'mister' to 'seely', which keeps the tension going. A cut would break the tension and lose the momentum causing us to think the film is tricking us in some way.
- the way the knife is portrayed is like it is a deadly weapon.
- the close ups of the blade mixed with the sounds of the the razor on his skin makes us think she could kill him at every minute.
- the cut away sustains the tension by stretching out the moment that this tense shave is taking.
- Spielberg always shows the important object large and in the foreground to show its importance.
Video 3:
- Hitchcock said "it is indespensible that the public be made perfectly aware of all the facts involved. Otherwise there is no suspense."
-when the bird swoops in it is not suspense it is shock because, the audience doesn't know anything so it cant be suspense, it is momuntary shock rather than drawn out suspense.
-we are given information about the birds because she was attacked by birds in previous scenes.
Part 2:-when the bird swoops in it is not suspense it is shock because, the audience doesn't know anything so it cant be suspense, it is momuntary shock rather than drawn out suspense.
-we are given information about the birds because she was attacked by birds in previous scenes.
Hi Hunter
ReplyDeleteOverall Score: 11/15
Some great insights and notes here indicating you are understanding the research you have done on how the 'pro's' create suspense.
I like that you tried to use a blog tool. Let's re-think which one you use in the future. These ones came out quite small and tricky to read unless I blew them up. Great attempt though. Also, for part 2 where you discuss the techniques you want to tr; this is a great preliminary observation but to get higher marks, this needed some kind of photo/ screenshot as well as more in-depth and detailed explanation and analysis. To get the marks you want, you need to steer away from things like, "I want to use this music because it's scary' and think of a more sophisticated, detailed way to decribe the effect you're talking about.
Overall, a great bit of research that will hopefully prove useful in PT2!