Monday, 25 January 2010

UNITED 93: Techniques used to create suspence

Bellow is a trailer of the film 'United 93' created by Working Titles. After watching it in class we were asked to summarise what techniques the film; 'United 93' created a feeling of suspense.

At the beginning of the film, it shows the terrorist preparing their hijack mission, the used numerous of cuts and words of the Qur'an to suggest to the audience that something were to happen.


During the film they used countless comparison cuts, a scene would show the atmosphere of the military and the airport control, which are all stressed and worrying conditions, then the scene would cut to the airplane flight, which are all oblivious to terrorist attacks and it a question of when will the terrorist on board would takeover to the audience.


Above are images of the moments after the hijack has taken place, another technique is also used in the style of sound. You have the passengers who are whispering, crying and planning a takeover also, whereas you have the terrorists, are mostly silent, and we have numerous close-ups of what seems to be the leader of the terrorist group, who seems unsure that he wants to carry out his mission. Furthermore, when the passengers try to fight back, a speedy beating music is played, creating more suspense as gives the audience a sense of urgency for them to succeed.

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