Last Day Dream [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

How this video creates suspense and tension.
This video uses a series of short clips combined with piano notes. The clips are played quite fast and you have to watch it more than once to notice everything in it. I believe this is done to emphasise the effect of time and how quickly it goes by and things change. This video creates suspense with the content of the shots, there are some moving and shocking images combined with happy and precious images, they are presented almost as memories using a lot of close up shots that involve the audience making them seem a lot more personal. The video creates tension by the speed of the clips and the music beat which gradually gets faster throughout, you are unsure if the sequence of clips is meant to represent old to new or if they are random. I think they are ordered but meant to confuse the audience, this creates tension because there is a lot of information to take in and process in a short amount of time, the clips themselves are not whole. I think the overall effect of the video is supposed to project how short and precious life is.

Location
There are many locations used in this video which emphasise the large span of time captured in a minute long video. The location is different in almost every clip emphasising the lives of the characters.

Characters
There are many characters used in this video, it shows birth, growth and death.