Suspense And Shock

Suspense,  This is described as a feeling of uncertainty and a prolonged feeling of anxiety of the outcome of a certain feeling. An example of this for instance is if there is a character with a bomb about to cause destruction, the audience will be aware of this but the characters in the film will have no clue.this starts .to make the audience ask questions like, When,Where and How the bomb will go off.

 This can be seen in the Alfred Hitchcock production Sabotage:
The audience is aware that the package contains an explosive that would go off at a particular time. The suspense is built because of the boy being oblivious to the fact that he is in a race against time.

there are many cuts from the boy to the package to create more tension and makes the scene that much more exciting.

Shock, This is more of a sudden and attention grabbing feeling that can be created by an unexpected occurrence in a film. This is different to suspense because the audience is unaware of anything that is about to happen and neither do the character in the film world. Imagine the same scenario formed in the suspense situation but the audience does not have an idea of what could be in the package, then soon after there is a sudden explosion. This is shock. The clip above is also a good way of demonstrating shock because if there was no brief by my introduction to the clip and there was no previous experience of the film, it would have been very difficult to guess that there was a Bomb in the package.

Also this clip below from the film jaws is also a good example of shock and very misleading to add to the terror:

the music and scene leading up to the shock is more tension than suspense because the audience would expect a shark to appear but instead it is a dead body.