This document discusses how costumes, props, and actors help audiences suspend their disbelief and engage with films and television shows. It focuses on the BBC series Ripper Street, explaining how the producers use costumes to create a sense of time in Victorian-era London, and props to generate tension and action. Actors like the stars of Ripper Street, Matthew MacFadyen and Jerome Flynn, attract audiences who are fans of their previous work. Students will watch an episode of Ripper Street and complete a quiz explaining how it uses these elements to make viewers forget they are watching fiction.