Suspense is when the audience are on the edge of their seats as we await to what is going to happen next. Will we be saved...Bang! This is suspense.
In Hitchcock's 'Sabortage' suspense is created when Verloc (the agent for an unnamed foreign country) gets his wife's younger brother to deliver a package for him for the time of 1:45 at a trainstation cloackroom, as the police are suspious of Verloc. So the younger brother goes and delivers the package, but of course, he is held up along the way by many obstacles. There is a constant reference to time, close-up shots of the bomb and the music mimacs the 'tick-tock' sound of a clock. We the audience are tense as we know when the bomb is going to go off but we're wondering 'will he deliver the bomb in time?' or 'will the bomb go off?'
Another example of suspense is the Silence of the Lambs in the scene where Clarice Starling is caught helpless in the darkness whilst Buffalo Bill lurks watches her and gets so so close. Will he kill her? Or will she kill him?
Shock
Imagine, the characters think that all the action and drama has come to an end. They're happy and hugging one another in joy that it's all over and parallel music matching the mood: only then Bang! Without warning a bomb explodes and kills them all, bit like Final Destination. Shocking revelations normally come at the end of the film as the audience are at ease as they think it's all over.
In 'Children of men' the protagonist goes into a coffee shop and buys coffee he then walks out to the street where he stops to pour some whiskey in his coffee then...Bang! With no warning an explotion happens at the coffee shop he has just been in.
Examples: The usual suspects, Se7en, The Sixth sense, end scene of The Ghost
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