a example of suspense would be a bomb is place in a hall full of people and set for 20 minutes to explode as the time goes down the camera will flash on and off quicker and quicker to the timer on the bomb this builds suspense because you want to know what will happen.
examples of shock and suspense in films.
Children of men- shock
a group of people are in a cramped cafe the main character leaves the cafe he move a bit away from the cafe puts he's tea on the side and does his shoe up, whilst he is doing he's shoe lace up and out of no where a bomb blows up in the cafe. this is shock because the bomb went off and we were completely unaware of this.
sabotage- suspense
a man asks a boy to deliver a bomb by 1:30 pm because it will explode by 1:45. the boy don't know it was a bomb so he didn't rush and took his mind off of it. the time reaches 1:45 the music changes to build tension and the camera keeps flicking back and forth to the clock the bomb. the boy then gets stuck in traffic just before the bomb blows a major amount of suspense is built and then it blows and the suspense goes away.
rope (1948)
tells the story of two young, wealthy men, brandon and Philip who strangle their best friend just to see if they can get away with it. later that day they have a party and invite everyone to the party they then put the food platters on top of the chest were the man is hidden and people keep questioning why the chest and not a table this build a lot of suspense.
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