Tahian's media presentation on the genres Thriller and Horror

2. Definition
 A hybrid genre is when two or more genres come together in one film or opening scene, for example; a
film may consist of a thriller and drama genre or an action and adventure genre
 Thriller is a genre that uses suspension, tension and excitement as its main elements to create an
atmosphere which plays with the audience’s emotions.
 A horror genre would usually consist of scenes which significantly play with the audience’s emotions and
would usually aim to frighten the audience.

3. Conventions of
Thriller/Horror
 There is a series of extreme close up shots of the character’s facial expression to show the audience how
they’re feeling especially when there is fear
 Sometimes during films, they may silence certain scenes to increase the tension or suggest to the
audience that something unordinary is about to take place
 Red is regularly used to show a sign of danger or evil
 Weapons are always used in thriller/horror films as well which represents violence
 Character wise, there will always be a protagonist and an antagonist (hero and a villain) where the villain
is usually seen to be a psychopath, demon or a ghost

4. Limitation of a
Thriller/Horror
 The use of special effects to make the scenes realistic would be difficult if it is made on a low budget
 Make up would also be difficult as you would need an extremely talented make up artist to make
characters realistic especially zombies and other ghostly creatures
 The right lighting may be hard to get if working on a murder sort of scene in a natural outdoor environment
without the use of special equipment
 Trying to get a location for a particular scene may be difficult especially if you tend to use an outdoor
public place as there may be members of the public who may not want to be recorded but may want to
stay in the place they’re at

5. My Ideas
 I would like to produce a film consisting of a hybrid genre; thriller and horror
 The story takes place in a forest where a group of students are recording a scene for their media project..
However they soon find out they aren’t the only ones lurking around in the woods
 As time goes past, one of the students goes off on his own to urinate somewhere away from everyone
else. 20 minutes goes by and the students start to realise he still hasn’t returned and go off looking for him
when they soon discover his body.
 The villains in this film is two psychopaths, both brothers, who start to kill each one of these students one
by one
 Each student is killed, however the last victim is left alive for him to tell the media his story and the history
of the killers. The scene then fades out to previous years when the serial killers were students who had
been bullied severely to their death in the same forest. They had died in those woods, and now they haunt
those woods.
 There is a background audio during these scenes of the surviving victim telling the story
 The scene then fades off to the title screen

6. Characters
 3 boys, 2 girls (Students)
 2 psychopaths
 Flashback – 4 Boys (2 boys are the psychopaths when they were normal), 2 Girls

7. Props that I would use
 Masks
 Knives
 Media equipment
 Handcuffs
 Pistols
 Rope
 Fake Blood
 Mobile Phones

8. Costume
 When the students are recording in the forest (current time and flashback) they would be wearing casual
clothing
 The two psychopaths will be wearing masks to conceal their identity but they will only reveal their identity
after they have severely injured the last victim where he would see their face in a blurry vision. One will be
equipped with knives and a pistol