Sabotage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJphwVjUF9E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOfln1alLTU&NR=1

In class we watched part of the film Sabotage made in 1936 and diretced by Alfred Hitchcock. The part we watched which is shown above is where the bomb goes off at the Lord Mayor's Show. We watched this scene as it is thought to be the best way of doing suspence in a movie to date. Many other directors look at this scene for inspiration on how to create the atmosphere to the audience of suspence. Hitchcock does this in with numerous techniques. One technique is dramatic irony. This is because the audience knows that the bomb is in the canister which the boy is holding but the characters in the text don't so makes the audience more involved in the plot as we know something that the characters don't. Also throughout the scene there is a close up of clocks as time is running out for the boy as the minute hand gets closer to the 45 which we know is when the bomb will go off. This makes us wonder if the boy will make it in time to the destination or not? Finally the music is parallel to the scene as its a clock ticking which emphasises if the boy has enough time or not as he goes very slowly and leisurely along the way. Furthermore this drags out the scene and the suspension as you want the boy to hurry up with the bomb.