2. Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, that uses elements of suspense, tension and excitement. They completely change the viewers mood creating anxiousness and anticipation. The aim for a thrillers to keep the audience alert and on the edge of their seats through the tension and the scares.

4. The secret of a great thriller is a great storytelling features found in all good novels such as a story that begins with a serious problem, a protagonist tries to solve only to find everything gets a whole lot worse. Most of the plots include a story that concerns someone facing life and death issues, putting normally the protagonist at danger. Setting; Thrillers usually include a lot of action, locating scenes in the middle of nowhere in a scary run down house. The location is key to a thriller, it gives the audience an idea of what the story line is about as well as creating atmosphere linking to tension that can be created. Music; The Music used in a thriller is extremely important, when watching scary movies the tense music is one of the elements that makes it petrifying, building up to the action that is about to happen.

5. Costume and make-up; Costumes represents personalities of each character, if they are dresses in black and don’t have their face on show the audience instantly link it to danger, however if the character was dressed in bright colours then the audience would not think anything unusual about them. The way we represent out characters is the way they are perceived by the audience. Lighting and colour; The lighting helps to represent to genre of a film especially with thrillers. Colours also suggest to mood and situation of things such as dark plain colours suggesting danger and mystery. Red is normally associated with love or blood again linking to danger.