1. Thriller
•Thriller is a very board genre of film.
• The main elements that are used is suspense, tension and
excitement.
•The main intensions of a thriller is to stimulate the viewers
feelings and moods giving them a high level of anticipation,
surprise, uncertainty, anxiety, stress and even terror.
•Thrillers are mainly inclined to be very quick and fast paced
and adrenaline rushing.
• Film techniques like cliff hangers are very commonly used.
• The main and most important aim of a thriller is to keep the
audience alert and on the edge of their seats.

2. Thriller
• There are many different sub sections to the theme of a
thriller movie:The main 4:
• Crime thriller
• Mystery thriller
• Conspiracy thriller
• Psychological thriller
For my coursework I am working in a group. We are trying to
create a thriller movie. However to do this we had to look at
normal conventions that associated with this type of genre. So
that we as a group can incorporate these conventions into our
movie.

3. Thriller
Archetypal character:
• A typical crime thriller would involve two characters which come into conflict with one another.
The main plot is that a protagonist character who is seen as vulnerable and weak is set
against a problem or mystery or an escape. That seems impossible.
• The protagonist is mainly shown as a: hostage ,victim, weak and vulnerable.
• They are mainly played by women or girls as they are seen as more naive and weaker then
men. Mainly they look exhausted scruffy, and ill. As they are normally in a confined space
when being held hostage or have barely slept because of their problem or mystery they need
to solve.
• The antagonist is mainly shown as a: criminal, stalker, kidnapper, assassin, evil, usually with
a vendetta or plot to take revenge.
• They seem to always look strange with a sense of madness about them but also evil.
• A thriller always has an antagonist character- this is someone who represents the evil in the
film someone whose intensions are corrupt and dangerous.
• The main character always wants to achieve sympathy from the audience so that throughout
the film the audience always wants to see the protagonist to achieve their goal.

4. Thriller: Mise-en-scene
Lighting - is especially important as the audience canassumewhat genre the movie is
by the way the lighting is displayed. In a normal thriller different levels of low key
lighting is used.This will create a mysterious secretive like impression. The normal
convention for lighting in a thriller would be very dark and gloomy lighting. Low key
lighting is very conventional of any thriller film as it builds up suspense. By the use of
color we can depict a mood or atmosphere. The normal conventions for a thriller would
be the color black grey and red. As each of these colors symbolizes darkness,
mysteriousness and even death.
• Costumes and Make-up - is used so that we can produce a character and present
them in a way that we would want the audience to perceive them.In relation to thriller
films a normal character would be a young women fearful and in tears. Therefore the
conventions towards makeup would be someone with smudged make up who looks
very fragile and upset.
• Setting And Props – in a typical thriller movie scenes would take place in locations
that seem to have a dark scary atmosphere. This would be a haunted house, dark ally
or a forest. The dark forest setting is a more stereotypical location with crime thrillers
where murdersrapes and conflictscan take place.
•Props -in thriller openings the most typical props associated with this would be things such as
weapons. Examples: knives and guns.

5. Thriller
Normal ways of using sound:
All the films I have analyzed have incorporated non
diegetic music playing in the background essentially to
build a certain atmosphere at the begging of the film.
Some films use dialogue at the start usually spoken by
the most important and influential character.
This is shown in the film kill bill Vol 2. where the main
character speaks about the events leading up to the
present time.
This is a great use of sound but also a literary technique
in which the story is narrated by one character.
This direct involvement that the characters have with
the story in turn makes the audience more involved
with the characters themselves.

6. Thriller:Common Editing
Commons editing: Most stereotypical editing features of thrillers is the use of writing being
shown over the top of action being played on screen. This is what silence of the lambs has
done. Instead of including the title and credits at the beginning of the film this thriller has
incorporated them during the first scenes. The writing is clearly written in black and white.
Which are two very distinctive colors. Which are normally associated with a dark and gloomy
atmosphere, the film titleis shown on screen just after the first character appears. Jump
cuts/short takes are extremely common in thrillers as there are many things happening that
we are unaware of so jump cuts/ short takes fill us in but also they create a quick fast passed
feel to the film which is what a thriller should feel like. Also they help make the audience
make assumptions of what the characters are truly like. But the most influential reason
thrillers use jump shots/short takes is to create suspense and confusing which helps keep the
audience on the edge of their seats.

7. Thriller: common camera angles and
movements
The most commonly used camera movements at the beginning of a thriller film are tracking and
panning shots. An example of this is in the film the silence of the lambs as when the main
character is running tracking shots were frequently used. The most typical shots used in thriller
films seems to be close ups and extreme close ups. These shots are greatly used in films like Kill
Bill Vol1 and 2 also The Silence Of The Lambs but also in se7en. These shots are most frequently
used to create suspense, excitement and mystery at the beginning so that the audience get
grasped into the movie very quickly so that they are hocked from the start and want to watch more.
Long shots are also very well known to beaddedinto thriller films. These arelargelyused to set the
scene. These shots are well known to be used in the films likeThe Dark Knight. Another camera
angle to be quite common in thrillers are high angles mainly to represent a powerful and dominant
position. The position of actors introduced into a scene or the film do not seem to differ from the
films I have study the actor normally tends to be positioned in the middle of the frame.