Sabotage and North by Northwest

Today we watched a scene of Sabotage that shows how to create suspense, and a scene from North by Northwest which shows how its possible to create an action scene with little resources.

Sabotage

Throughout the whole sequence the audience is shown close ups of the film canister, which the bomb is in, as well clocks, showing us its getting closer and closer to the time of the bomb going off. When the boy get on the bus, the music changes, and resembles the ticking of a clock. The music getting faster and faster as 1:45 approaches, along with the close ups of the bomb and clocks, with the boy who keeps looking to see the time and where the bus is or why it has stopped, all builds up the suspense dramatically.

North by Northwest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5D1aeNB2Bc

This famous scene from North by Northwest shows how an action scene can be created with little resources. This is a good scene for us to watch as we have little resources compared to proper film companies, and it shows that from using a few things a good action packed scene can be created. Even though the resources used in this scene are ones we can't use, we can still use the idea of 'Less is more' to help create our own thriller moive opening.