| A | B |
|---|
| Suspense | Gradual build in tension |
| Surprise | Catching someone off-guard |
| Superior Position | Audience knows more than the characters on the screen. |
| Inferior Position | Audience knows less than the characters on the screen. |
| Characteristics of Horror films | gruesome visuals, disturbing imagery, unsettling sounds |
| Characteristics of suspense films | questions of trust, twists and turns, psychological drama |
| Master of Suspense | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Hitchcock focused his suspense and drama on... | psychoanalysis |
| MacGuffin | plot device using an OBJECT to push the plot forward |
| What must directors do to intrigue audiences and maximize dramatic irony? | Reveal key information and then withhold it. |
| Ways to heighten suspense | unreliable narrator, unfamiliar setting, countdown, hint of violence, new clue/discovery, high stakes, personal loss |
