Look at the opening of Nicolas Hytner’s film of “The Crucible” and discuss how tension and suspense are raised through cinematic features.

... Look at the opening of Nicolas Hytner's film of "The Crucible" and discuss how tension and suspense are raised through cinematic features. The play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller has created tension and suspense by using many devices such as arguments, though I am going to as best as I can to show how tension and suspense are created in Nicolas Hytner's film "The crucible" using cinematic features. The cinematic features I will be looking at are lighting, camera shots and angles and finally music and sounds. As soon as the film begins tension is raised, the opening credits show that this film is going to be a serious and I thought maybe a bit scary. The beginning shows the names of the producers and behind the scenes cast, though will these are shown there is no music and the writing is on a plain black background. There is no music

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