The document discusses common conventions used in psychological thrillers regarding location, costumes, lighting, props, sound, camera movement, and editing. It notes that psychological thrillers are often set in cities and buildings with low lighting to create shadows and tension. Villains typically wear suits or casual clothes. Mirrors are used to portray a character's inner self. Tension-building music and silence are common sounds. Quick camera movements increase fear and suspense, especially in significant scenes. Flashbacks and black-and-white coloring are editing techniques used to manipulate time and increase shadows and tension.

1. Conventions Of A Psychological
Thriller

2. Miss-En-Scene
Location; Location is a very important element to psychological thrillers. The most common
location for psychological thrillers to be set it the city. Also most commonly inside a building
e.g. house, jail, restaurants. The countryside is not commonly used as that can often get
confused with horror.
Costumes; the villains most typically wear smart suit, or shirt and jeans. This fits in with the
location being that its located in an urban built up area.
Lighting; low level lighting is mostly used in psychological thriller this creates shadows which
helps create fear and tension.
Props; mirrors are commonly used in psychological thrillers to portray the use of reflections
of a characters inner self as well as representing the ‘dark side’ of the character.

3. Sound
Most commonly In psychological thrillers high tension music or eerie
sounds are used, or in complete contrast to this silence is used. All
of these helps creates suspense and tension throughout the film.

4. Camera Movement
Camera movements are a very important element in psychological
thriller’s. Quick camera movements and changes in camera movements
are used. This helps increase the fear and shock of the character. This
also helps builds suspense among the audience. This is particularly used
in significant scenes of the film.

5. Editing
Common techniques used when editing psychological thrillers are flashbacks
and black and white colouring. These techniques can be used for several
different reasons. Time disorientation (flashbacks) are used as this helps show
the past to give an insight into the characters past and show a important
message or helps explain why the character(s) are the way they are.
Black and white colouring are often used as this also helps increase the
effectiveness of shadows. This helps build and increase tension and suspense
among the characters and audience.