Media

1. NARRATIVE
CONVENTIONS
OF A THRILLER
E L E A N O R P R I C E 1 2 D

2. CRIME
• Ransoms- holding people for money
• Captivities-Holding someone against their will
• Heists- robberies - The Heist
• Revenge- the act of hurting/harming someone in return of something they did
• Kidnapping- stealing someone -Taken

3. MYSTERY
• Investigations- A detective finding a mystery
• Whodunit- ‘Who done it?’

4. PSYCHOLOGICAL
• Mind games-manipulating someone psychologically
• Psychological themes- crazy actions
• Stalking- to watch/follow somebody - Girlhouse
• Confinement- locked in a confined place/trapped
• Deathtraps- somebody walking into a death trap
• Horror of personality- excessive violence of presence of malevolent
• Obsession-could be stalking somebody

5. NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
• Plots twists and turns-turns the story around
• Multiple lines of action- violence in multiple following scenes
• Flashbacks- violence, bad past memories shot back –Suicide Squad
• Narrative retardation- holding back key information
• Red herrings- make you believe something that is not true
• Mis direction- sending somebody off track
• Deadlines- meeting deadlines or getting killed for it
• Principle of concealment- hiding something from characters
• Chases/pursuits- chasing the antagonist –James Bond
• Making the audience work- making them think