The Use Of Suspense Techniques In Eye Contact

Theater is an established art form that has served as public entertainment for several years. Theatre provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live, and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they happen and share the experience with the characters in real time. Last weekend I watched the famous play Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap directed by Jeff Brown at Long Beach Playhouse. The thesis revolves around the significance of using suspense and mystery plot. The paper will explain the effect of using these techniques of suspense in mystery. Suspense is when an individual experiences gratifying expectation and excitement regarding the outcome of a story. Suspense is necessary in writing mystery plays because it captures the audience’s interest and imagination.

In both the excerpts "Jams" and "Swimming with Nightmares" by Peter Benchley, the author creates suspense in many ways. The author utilizes descriptive words, character's choices, and dangerous situations for creating suspense.

There are many devices that lead to suspense, one being the device of foreshadowing. It appears many times through the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. It is used to create an atmosphere that keeps the reader entertained. One example of this is, “The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are the hunters.” (Connell 8). This quote is an example of foreshadowing because it gives you clues to what is going to happen. It gives you a clue to the fact he is not really the hunter, but in fact, the hunted.

Suspense in Steven Spielberg's Movie Jaws Steven Spielberg, the creator of Jaws, uses many different techniques to draw in the suspense of viewers and to capture their imagination. These techniques include special effects – to create tension, different camera angles – to show facial expressions and group shots. The classic Jaws music, known by millions of people, also helps build up tension, to let us know when the shark is approaching. He uses colours, so that we can associate signs and symbols to forthcoming events, e.g. the colour red is associated with danger. We will be using all of the above devices to help analyse different parts of the film.

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, John Williams employs diegetic music by having the characters in the film sing a song that combines with the background music. The song “Double Trouble” is sung by the school choir while the film score for the movie that reflects mysteriousness and

During the film Steve Spielberg uses music, a mysterious shark and camera techniques such as simultaneous track and zoom, long shot, close up shots and medium shots to build suspense, tension and scare the audience.

First Hillenbrand creates suspense through several kinds of literary skills that catch you off guard. One very large way is she shows it is through Imagery. Imagery is a

In the short story “The Sound of Thunder”, by Ray Bradbury, suspense is built through setting,foreshadow,conflict.The first way, the author creates suspense is by the setting. The setting makes the story suspenseful by how they go throw time to go make in time by a time machine and when they get there they are in the middle of a jungle to 1492. Once they got to the jungle in 1492 they got out of the time machine and started talking about the rules and about how if they step of the trail or kill an animal that was not supposed to be killed there will be consequences. “The Machine slowed; its scream fell to a murmur. The Machine stopped. The sun stopped in the sky. The fog that had enveloped the Machine blew away and they were in an old time, a very old time indeed, three hunters and two Safari Heads with their blue metal guns across their knees.” Oncy they got there they followed they the people showing them which animal to hunt and telling them so hunt the ones with the red paint on them. In conclusion the reader knows it is suspenseful if they step off of the trail or shot one of them without red paint then they would be killed or have to pay a fine.

Text Connection Essay “‘Watch out!” screamed Maggie. Suddenly the road took a sharp turn, and a huge oak tree loomed in my headlights”(Shusterman 39). When Neal Shusterman uses suspense it’s usually in a way that would probably end badly. He loves to try and hook the reader with suspense, so then the readers would want to keep reading that same book. As evidence in Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman and “The Abandoned Farmhouse” by Ted Kooser, suspense can be effectively created through the use of imagery.

The first way the author creates suspense in the story is by foreshadowing. When Captain Torres walked into the barber’s shop, the barber, “Started to shake,” (Tellez 1) indicating that the barber felt instant fear, when his enemy approached. This foreshadows that the barber knows the man and that he will be deciding to kill him or not. Foreshadowing creates suspense because it is a clue given to the reader. It is the reader’s job to guess what is going to happen in the story and that is what makes it interesting. Without foreshadowing the reader won’t be able to prepare what is going to happen next. Another scene where the foreshadowing technique is used was when the barber came up with his reasons to not kill Captain Torres. The barber contemplated in his mind, “Don’t want to stain myself with blood. Just lather, and nothing else,” (Tellez 2) which foreshadows that the barber is not going to commit murder.

Suspense in a story can be easily identified or not so easily identified, foreshadowing is one of the many ways that short story authors use to add more suspense to their story. In The Scarlet Ibis, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Most Dangerous Game foreshadowing is used to give these short story suspense.

The filmed opened up with a flashback of a girl in a red dress. By showing this a sense of anticipation is created. Throughout the book a feeling of suspense is created by the way the director decided to film each scene. The director also made sure

The film that made an impression on me because of its techniques was The Great Gatsby. The director, Baz Luhrmann presents certain themes and ideas for the viewers. To do this, Baz Luhrmann proficiently uses a range of techniques to demonstrate these ideas. The Great Gatsby is about a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. The techniques I write about that illustrate the themes of the film are; camera shots, setting, lighting and symbolism. The scenes I will be concentrating on are the final scenes which feature the Great Gatsby.

The next literary device the author utilizes is foreshadowing. The author hints at the reader in numerous ways, which builds curiosity, anticipation, and

In my opinion, ‘Eye Contact” deserves 3.5 out of 5 stars. The film was not as scary as it could have been. It would have been scarier if rather than using a shadow as the fear factor, a man was used. The shadow was implied to be a figure of a man, but it would have been more suspenseful if the shadow had more developed features. In the film, Allison Mickelson, the runner, was being followed by a mysterious shadow. The shadow was always present each time she turned around to peek, and the shadow followed her all the way home. When she arrived home she frantically called 911. While calling, the shadow entered her home and she dropped the phone mid-call. The film-maker was successful in creating suspense but not so much making you feel