Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense, in this film he builds great suspense because he uses the technique of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is is when the audience knows information about something but the characters are not aware of it. During this scene we as the audience knew that the young boy had a bomb in his hand but he had no idea. We also knew that something was going to happen but we didn't know how it was going to happen so therefore we had no idea where the bomb would go off either. Us as an audience were also aware of what time the bomb was set to go off which was 1:45. during this scene Hitchcock uses non diagetic music which is at the pace of how close it is getting until the bomb went off so as it was getting closer and closer the music and ticking got faster and faster.
Also during this scene as it was getting closer and closer to the time the bomb setting off Hitchcock showed many different images of clocks and he showed us the clock hands moving round and round as they were getting closer to 1:45, this was effective because it built suspense and made us wonder what was going to happen next and if the bomb was going to go off or not. Also the clock ticking getting faster and faster was very effective because it was getting quicker as time was going by and then carried on continuously then bang it went off.
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