Providing and withholding information

    Often editors will show someone looking at something with hold Ar what it is they are looking at. They withhold information from the viewer and this raises tension and suspense. This is done to help the viewer engage with the story and make then think about the information that they have been withed and sometimes can be shocked and surprised when the information has then been provided to them. This can mean several things in film such as a plot twist as they withhold information provided  last part of the film.






An example of Providing and withholding information can be in saw as in the full film there is information withhold as the as an audience we dont know why there are three men in the room with one dead. Then the information is provided with the third man that seems to be dead was actually alive and he was the one that was pulling the strings all along.