The Role Of Suspense In Harper's Island

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2 Have you ever watched a horror series, that makes you feel shook with fear? In Harper's Island, every episode will leave you scared, but wanting to watch more. Harpers Island is a horror filled television series that had aired in 2009. This series is mainly about Abby Mills, who had left the island when she was younger when her mother and 6 others were brutally murdered. John Wakefield had been the one who killed them. Abby Mills, father Sheriff Mills,was known as the man who shot and killed John. After many years had passed, seven to be exact. Abby and a few of her friends had decided to return to Harper's Island, so that their friends could get married there. When they had got to the island, many of them began to die and the ones who stay alive begin to wonder if John Wakefield, has returned back or if someone was mimicking how he had murdered people. Suspense in this television series was created by having slow creepy music in the beginning, when they were looking out the window, waiting for their other friends to return. Two other ways suspense was created is when they had put the camera behind the staircase and made you feel as if you were …show more content…

Then out of nowhere someone had knocked on the door. This created suspense because they had used sound and it had made the scene feel more intense. That is one way the author had created suspense for the viewers. In this horror, television series, in episode 9, suspense was created by the setting and the placement of the camera. In the scene 22:58, the guys had found blood, they had put the camera in the staircase and it made it feel, as if you were there. Which had made it feel more suspenseful and more

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