Suspense

For other uses, see Suspense (disambiguation).

Suspense or tension is the feeling of uncertainty and interest about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. However, suspense is not exclusive to literature. Also, it's just like making the scene all a big, dramatic moment, that leads up to a big event, causing, Tension

Suspense in movies

Alfred Hitchcock is considered to be the first one to use suspense in movies, acording to Alfred Hitchcock the viewer has to know more than the character to create suspense. He has many ways to put suspense in a movie: - Innocent people get in a problem they couldn't help - He uses the MacGuffin, this is a storyline that has nothing to do with the real story but is used to bring the viewer in the story. Nowadays suspense is very often used in movies, they use the ways of Alfred Hitchcock to bring suspense in a movie.

Aristotle

According to Aristotle's Poetics, suspense is an important building block of drama. In very broad terms, it consists of having some real danger looming and a ray of hope. The two common outcomes can be

• the danger hits, whereby the audience will feel sorrowful
• the hope comes true, whereby the audience will first feel joy, then satisfaction.

If there is no hope, the audience will feel despair.

Suspense in dramatic works

• Alfred Hitchcock is considered to be one of the premier directors of suspense film.
• J. B. Priestley wrote numerous plays with high levels of suspense, the most popular of all being An Inspector Calls.
• Robert Ludlum has written many books in the international suspense genre. In the Jason Bourne series, the main character has amnesia. He does not remember who he is, what he does, or how he got there -- these techniques are used to increase suspense and curiosity in the reader.

• Video games such as the Half-Life series and F.E.A.R. have certain degrees of suspense.