How Is Suspence Created In Collateral?

Suspense in Collateral.

In Collateral the opening sequence of this film starts with an establishing shot of Tom Cruise, we then see another establishing shot of Jason Stathan. These establishing shots introduce the main characters to the audience.

The characters are in a place that is very crowed, with many people, this makes it suspicous as we as an audience don't know why their there. Although they are in a crowed place the people in the back ground and blurred out; this makes it clear to the audience that those two characters are the main focus. We then see a shot reverse shot between both characters , this carries connotations to the audience that there may be a link between them or the some how know eachother.

A medium shot of cruise and stanthan is shown, they then bump into each other and drop their bags. Both men are dressed in black suits and one in dark sunglasses which can be seen as suspicious as it may be thought to the audience that they are some kind of bad bussiness men, it would also make the audience think 'why is he wearing sunglasses?' or 'maybe he doesn't want people to see his eyes... but why?' The fact that both characters spoke to each other even though they are strangers to eachother is a bit weird they then pick up the bags but only they've swapped and they both knew that they had, which suggests to the audience that they may be associates.

The non diegetic sounds of footsteps and the diegetic accompaninment that stops and starts creates tension and gets the audience to wonder whats going to happen next.