During one of our lessons, we watched the opening extract of Sabotage; a thriller film made in 1936. This was again another one of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous British films that demonstrated several things. It included dramatic irony, meaning that us as the audience know something that the character does not. In the case of this film, a man called Verloc who is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London gives a package to his wife's younger brother to take it to Picaddilly Circus. His wife's younger brother follows the orders he has been given as does so even though that he doesn't know the package is in fact a bomb and will go off at 1:45. Although Verloc drumbs into the young boy's head that the package must be at Picadilly Circus by 1:30 he is unfortunately unable to make this deadline and therefore we see the end of his life.
During the film, suspense and tension is built up in many ways. For example, while watching the film we get several close ups of the package which is in fact the bomb. This is helping us believe that time is getting on and the bomb could go off anytime soon. We also hear the dramatic change in music. Whilst watching the young boy on the bus with the package, we hear a contrapuntal sound which comes across as a 'tik tok' which coudl therefore relate to a clock or a bomb which shows that the time is getting nearer to 1:45.
During one of our lessons, we watched the opening extract of Sabotage; a thriller film made in 1936. This was again another one of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous British films that demonstrated several things. It included dramatic irony, meaning that us as the audience know something that the character does not. In the case of this film, a man called Verloc who is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London gives a package to his wife's younger brother to take it to Picaddilly Circus. His wife's younger brother follows the orders he has been given as does so even though that he doesn't know the package is in fact a bomb and will go off at 1:45. Although Verloc drumbs into the young boy's head that the package must be at Picadilly Circus by 1:30 he is unfortunately unable to make this deadline and therefore we see the end of his life.
During the film, suspense and tension is built up in many ways. For example, while watching the film we get several close ups of the package which is in fact the bomb. This is helping us believe that time is getting on and the bomb could go off anytime soon. We also hear the dramatic change in music. Whilst watching the young boy on the bus with the package, we hear a contrapuntal sound which comes across as a 'tik tok' which coudl therefore relate to a clock or a bomb which shows that the time is getting nearer to 1:45.
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