Effect-bus
See also: Bus
The effect-bus is a stylistic effect used with the Cinéma, generally in suspense films or terror. It consists, at the end of a scene in which the tension is assembled, to make it fall down abruptly by means of the irruption of an external element, as a cat which crosses the part.
It is the Franco-American realizer Jacques Tourneur which is the inventor.
First use of the effect-bus
Turner uses for the first time this effect in the film Cat-like the , in 1942. Heroin is continued by a threatening presence, and crosses a park of night, lit by far in far by a standard lamp. The screen is narrowed by these remote regions, bringing the spectator closer to the action (by invasion of the screen by the darkness of the room). She is always filmed going of the left of the screen towards the line. She accelerates the step gradually, while being turned over towards the left of the screen, from which the threat comes. The tension goes up gradually. One hears bellows, noises of step. The scene is concluded by the irruption from a bus, line of the screen (thus going in the opposite direction of the walk of the actress), which one does not intend to come (making its irruption unforeseeable even more brutal); the sound of the brake application is very close to a cat-like cry, and reaches us with delay, compared to the image, which contributes even more to make start the spectator.
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