Research :what is a thriller

what are genres?

 A genre is a way of categorizing a particular media text according to the content and style for example when putting between a horror movie and a thriller which can deal with the similar subject matter it looks the same for example lots of action set at night but belong to different genre ( a horror films takes the audiences into supernatural place where as thriller mainly focus on reality).

  

what is a thriller?

A thriller is genre that  revolves  a sudden rush of emotions, excitement  that drives the story sometimes at costant  chilling pace thrill. It keeps the audience cliff hanging at the edge of their seats as the plot builds towards climax, a thriller is usually villain-driven plot whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome.A common theme in thrillers involves innocent victims dealing with deranged and most the time children  involve sometimes elderly are  featured as well.

 Example of thrillers.

Tittle : Psycho

Genre: Thriller



Narrative 
 Marion steals the money and decide to leave the town On the road, she pulls over to sleep and she  is awoken by a policeman who detects that something is wrong. The policeman lets her go, but upon arriving in another town,Marion pulls into a used car dealership and hastily exchanges her car for another one. driving during a rainy night  she pulls up  to bates motel that has recentlyl lost business due to  the  diversion of the highway  the proprietor youthful but nervous Normans Bate  invit her for a light dinner in the parlor then Norman starts talking about how his mother is mentally ill, but he becomes agitated and bristles when Marion suggests that she be  institutionalized.Then the conversation reduces Marion decides to return back to phoenix  and return the stolen money,Marion later on takes a shower in her room, during which a shadowy figure comes and stabs her to death. Norman bursts into the bathroom and discovers Marion's dead body. He wraps the body in the shower curtain and cleans up the bathroom. He puts Marion's body in her car and sinks her car in a nearby swamp.

The common subgenres are crime thrillers, psychological thriller erotic thriller and mystery thrillers  and another common thriller is spy genre which  deal with  fictional  espionage an example of  thrillers are Psycho the horror and action  genre  often overlap  with the thriller genre, the thriller tend to be pyscholocal, threatening,mysterious and at times it involve larger scale villains such as  espionage and terrorism, comedy thriller and political thriller and actions thriller  is also part of it

 

 

 

   Example of thrillers.

saw is an example of thriller. 

 Saw is a psychological thriller which  plays  with characters minds and the audience always want to know whats happening when watching a psychological thriller.



Mirror is another example of thriller which  involve a protagonist  try  to save the day by deafeating   antagonist and must of the time the antagonist initially are  always cleverer or stronger than the protagonist.



The common themes of thrillers.

The common themes of thrillers is usually guilt, revenge, obessions  spying , death  and love  this  then follows by the narritive mainly dominated by protagonist point of view.

 

The common themes involve kidnapping, pschylogical thriller  themes like stalking deathtraps, minds games and crimes, 

Codes and Conventions

Thriller  films mainly focus on editing  and sound editing , sound on thrillers  tend to be fast paced  and quick cuts  this is  to create  sense of  tension  and suspense, tension is very  important when it comes to a thrillers , the colour black and white are also conventions of a thriller  which brings in  more dark and sinister feel to the movie.The lighting  are also conventions of thrillers  they  are exaggerated by the use of the colours black and white  in  thrillers  mirrors and stairs are used quite often  they are mainly used on psychological thrillers.

The codes are generally fast paced camera angle changes which  add that extra  tensions  and mystery to the thriller and thrillers usually have great  deal of actions, cinematic landscapes and city capes  or sometimes mind capes for example Psycho  thrillers can  be very dramatic  even when it focus on  someone's mind  mainly in psychological  thriller.

Music always helps to build up tension and the use of  lighting helps to create shadows which gives the thriller mystery  usually we see  huge part of the thriller  from  the killers point of view which allows the thriller to be more menacing , there's  a lot of flashback  to help clarify  the develop of the story  these are all used to  keep the audience interested  and constantly  enable them to think.

Response from the audience.

Thriller creates a chilling response from the  audience  it make the audience feel intimate and scared after watching a thriller this can mainly be because of the image of the people  blacking their  eyes, faces  out with pens ideas of victims  or targets  there's a sense  the antagonist planning something as the audience would what want to ask themselves  questions what is going to happen but  the questions doesn't stays on the audiences minds.


Overall this coursework has helped me understand how thrillers films are made and how different elements help make a good thriller movie for example the location are massively important when producing a  thriller and also  studying this course actually allowed me to see things differently for example when watching a thriller movie how the camera angles are used and the editing, the code of conventions helps make a good thriller film.