The director uses different techniques to influence the audience with emotion and shock. In hotel Rwanda he uses a wide range of techniques such as camera angles , sound effects , camera shots and suspense. Overall the producer is trying to create shock and emotion in hotel Rwanda to make a political statement of how terrifying the film was and what went on at that time.

In hotel Rwanda the director used techniques to create a message in the film. He rein- forces the message through emotion and shock, he uses these techniques in the film by making the viewers see things that the viewers aren’t expecting at the moment in the film which creates shock in the viewers eyes.The producer also uses techniques in scenes, for example, sound effects, camera angles,special effects and camera shots.

Camera angles reinforce the sense of shock and emotion,there is a scene where Paul’s car comes to a stop. Paul falls out the car and there’s a camera shot were it takes a quick glimpse of the floor but the viewers can’t really tell what’s on the ground. This strengthens the feeling of shock because your not expecting a feeling like that at that time in the film.The director uses expressions on the characters faces to create suspense in the film, like the scene that i’m talking about were Paul’s falls out of the car and there’s a camera angle of just Paul’s face which is a close up camera angle but the viewers can tell that its something horrific by Paul’s reactions and expressions which creates suspense, this is caused by several factors, non-diegetic sounds and it gives the scene an intense atmosphere where you hear a machete being drawn and gives the scene a little bit of a scare and the audience wants to know why they are using that sound effect and what’s gone on that Paul can see but we can’t.

There is a scene in hotel Rwanda were Paul Russesbagina is told to take a route on the river road, we see a far away camera shot of Paul’s car but the director has put in sound effects were as the viewers we know that something is going to happen by the music, when Paul’s car comes to a stop Paul falls out the car and there’s a camera shot were it takes a quick glimpse of the floor but the viewers can’t really tell what’s on the ground, then the camera goes onto the floor then it reveals what’s on the ground, so the producer uses sound effects and camera shots in certain scenes to create suspense.

in hotel Rwanda there is another scene were Paul has just asked the general to come and help his family and the people at the hotel before the people come to kill them, once they turn up Paul goes inside the hotel trying to look for his family and when he can’t find them the viewers immediately known that the next place that Paul is going to look is the roof because the producer gave a hint back in the film that this is we’re they are going to be Paul said that everyone should jump from the roof if they get invaded,So from that quote the producer is using hints to tell us small things that’s going to happen later in the film so that’s another technique that the director uses.