Journal #23

I think that suspense makes scary movies extra scary. Not knowing what is going to happen and what might pop out keeps me on the edge of my seat and cringe as the music speeds up. The back up music creates a sense of suspense as well. The music becomes louder and faster until finally you see what happens and what may pop out at you. Of course, light and airy happy music what really set the mood. But dark sounding music that gradually speeds up makes peoples hearts start to speed along with the music. Drawing out and making the viewers wait to see what happens makes them cringe. The timing has to be just right. If you wait to long for something to happen the viewers will be like, "What is going on?" or "This is really boring." Throwing things out at the viewers too fast is also not as scary. Then the audience doesn't have the opportunity to become anxious and start to wonder what may happen. Having things pop out of no where and sudden bursts of loud noises causes a fright. If everything is quiet then all the sudden, "BOOM" that is pretty scary. But things don't have to be loud or unexpected to be scary. Sometimes just knowing a character is in danger causes you to be scared. The story line is very important to making something scary. If the story seems realistic and the characters seem to be like real people then the story will seem more scary. If the story seems like it could happen to them anytime I think it makes it good. But, then again, having something completely different and out of the ordinary may be just as scary. Seeing something never seen before or having an idea that has never been heard to scare people can really hit home and scare the people because it is so different. Stories based on situations that have happened in the past are the scariest to me. Such as stories about natural disasters or the holocaust. Those really scare me just knowing they have really happened.