Tension Essay

How is tension and suspense created through media language in the TV       scene

Tension and suspense is created, as it starts with a diegetic sound of thunder and lightning and a close up of a TV that turns to static. This creates tension and suspense because it connotes there is a power-cut or a ghostly intervention.

The TV screen stays distorted as the girl tries to fix it, with a over the shoulder camera shot. There is then CGI editing to a guy on a chair behind her, to make a sort of reflection. The camera does a swish pan around to the chair, along with a creepy ‘whoosh’ sound and the girls heavy breathing. There is special effects to make the TV remote float which also adds suspense. When the TV remote falls to the floor, an non-diegetic eerie sound has played and the camera tilts down along with the remote and you don’t know where the ghost went. As it switches between the chair and the girl, the is music which creates suspense until a ghostly character appears behind her and frightens her. This has created tension as the switches between the girl and chair makes you think something is going to happen, as before when there we suspense scenes, not much happened.