2. Subgenre’s
Action Thriller
Crime Thriller
Legal Thriller
Political Thriller
Supernatural Thriller (may include the paranormal)
Psychological or Conspiracy Thriller
Volcano Thriller (Disaster thriller)
Historical, religious, or medical thriller
3. Conventions of Thrillers
The technical elements of a Thriller film are key to structuring the film:
• - Camera angles are distorted - E.g. Canted angle on moment of
panic or haste.
• - Incidental music - Setting tone (Minor/major, or climbing with
pace of film to add further tension and or suspense)
• - Altered or seemingly corrupted lighting as well as general lighting
(shadow's depicting of constant, melodramatic excluded darkness)
• - Placing of mirrors (to highlight the character's (usually
protagonist's) facial expression or body language to emphasise their
state of emotion (panicked?), also - commonly used to display the
thing/reflection/shadow of the thing that is feared.
• - Use of stairs (While the character is usually escaping in
consternation of seeking out what is suspected (e.g. if a noise is
heard they explore...)
