Sudden Clarity

I suddenly realised the animated adaptations of "The Black Dahlia" were really my chance to test out how suspense can operate visually. If my pre-existing definition of suspense is a simple tension between two states/conditions - then I want to use these small animated studies to test this out. I need to work with the relationship between two elements at a time and see how far I can push the ensuing friction. First; letter and light. How can one element affect the other? How does they compete? Reveal each other? Conceal each other? What is the possibility in this interaction?