Sabotage

The master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, made Sabotage in 1935. It is a film which has been used to define the meaning of suspense, due to the quality of how it shows suspense throughout. We watched a clip of the film in Media.
The film is about a terrorist, called Verloc gives a package to his his sister's younger brother to take to Piccadilly Circus. The brother, only a young boy, begins the journey, not knowing that the package is in a bomb, set to explode at 1:45. He is told to walk to Piccadilly Circus by 1:30, but is prevented in doing so by a number of obstacles, like the Lord Mayors Show, with a deadly consequence. The clip uses dramatic irony, which is when the audience knows something, which a character doesn't.

Suspense in the Clip
Suspence is created in the clip in a number of ways.
Close ups are used on the bomb and the boys face throughout.
Music follows a 'Tik tok' beat, like a timer, or a bomb, which speeds up and gets higher in pitch as the time gets nearer to the time the bomb goes off.
Clocks are seen several times, showing the time getting later and later, showing the time changing, and how long the boy has left to get to his destination.