How to create a thriller
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1) When creating a thriller film, the audience should be the top priority. Scenes should tease and draw the viewers in, connecting with their emotions. 2) Emotion is the ultimate goal of each scene. Camera placement and facial expressions can enhance the intended emotion. Close-ups of the eyes are especially impactful. 3) The camera should move around liberally as if the viewer is uncovering the story themselves. Close-ups on objects can help explain plot elements.
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Thriller films employ several conventions to build suspense and tension. These include [1] using suspenseful music, lighting, camera techniques and editing to create an ominous atmosphere and keep audiences on the edge of their seats. [2] The films usually focus on a protagonist facing danger from an antagonist, with the protagonist trying to resolve the problem or defeat the antagonist. [3] A variety of shots, angles, and editing techniques like fast cutting between scenes are used to quickly convey dramatic information to audiences and maintain their interest and energy throughout the film.
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Thriller films employ several conventions to build suspense and tension. These include [1] using various camera angles and shots like close-ups to focus viewers on characters' expressions, [2] incorporating editing techniques like fast cutting between scenes to keep audiences on the edge of their seats, and [3] implementing a soundtrack including ominous music and sudden silences to further heighten suspense. Character archetypes like a protagonist opposing an antagonist are also commonly used as plots unfold and dangers are confronted and resolved at the climactic ending.
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The document discusses how a media product follows conventions of the thriller genre. It establishes several conventions used: (1) The protagonist has a weakness like memory loss that makes him vulnerable; (2) Voyeurism is used to engage audiences; (3) Enigmas are set up with unclear elements like a coded paper to encourage questioning; (4) Effects are used to portray the protagonist's unstable mental state; (5) A climactic perilous scene is included at the end to leave audiences on edge. Overall, the media product challenges conventions by subverting expectations while developing conventions like using ordinary locations for extraordinary events.
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Fast editing, cross cutting, flashbacks, tracking and pan shots, point-of-view shots, establishing shots, close-ups, and aerial shots are commonly used cinematic techniques in media thrillers. These techniques are employed to build tension, create suspense, establish settings and tone, show character emotions, keep audiences interested by quickly changing scenes, and highlight characters' vulnerability or loss of power. For example, cross cutting between a character and subject builds tension, while establishing shots set the scene for the film's themes and aerial views emphasize a character's isolation or weakness.
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Fast editing, cross cutting, and tracking shots are used to build tension and keep audiences engaged in thriller films. Flashbacks provide insight into a character's feelings and create a sense of disorientation. Establishing shots set the scene and tone, while close-ups reveal detail and emotion. Bird's-eye views can show a character's isolation or vulnerability. These cinematic techniques enhance suspense and drama in media thrillers.
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- 2. The audience When creating a thriller film one must remember that it is of the essence that everything is done for the audience. It is all about how the scene is going to affect the viewers. The characters in the film should tease the audience and make them desperate enough to want to see more. The content is supposed to connect and draw the viewers in.
- 3. All about the eyes It is said that emotion is the ultimate goal in each scene of a film. Depending on where you place the camera it should evoke the emotion you want the audience to feel. Emotion can come from the actors facial expression/eyes and the camera can control the intensity of that emotion by either placing the camera far away or close to the eyes.
- 4. The camera In order to make the audience feel like they are part of and uncovering the stories the camera should take on a human like quality in which it liberally wanders around the room/location. The view than feels as if they are apart of the unravelling of the plot. If the camera pans the room and then focus on a particular object ( close up) this will help explain plot elements.
- 5. A good way to pull the viewer into the secret world of a character is if one of the characters are preoccupied with something else whilst in the middle of a dialogue scene ( their eyes can be distracted while the other person does not notice.) Do not resort to dialogue only when its impossible to do otherwise.
- 6. Montage (Truffaut) Anytime something important happens, show it in a close-up. Make sure the audience can see it. Create a Montage as you are able to depict an event by showing diffrent pieces of it and having control over the timing.
- 7. The plot The plot should not be confusing or too much to remember because you will not be able to get suspense out if it. A simple story that the viewer can easily follow is how one can create a Hitchcock feel to the sequence. Plots such as crime, murder ,assassinations , spies, play on fear.
- 8. Thrillers should suprise you at every step. This is why the characters should be 3 dimentional there is more to them than what meets they eye. These sort of characters are more realistic to the audience.
- 9. Atmosphere Use humour to add tension. if done corectly this can be used to build tension
- 10. Building tension In order to build tension into a scene you can use two unrelated things at they happen at once. This leaves the viewer focused on the momentum of one and distracted by the other one.
- 11. Creating suspense In order to create suspense with the characters. Show the audience a scene which presents a story that the audience will be anticipating and by enabling the audience to create an thought of how the ending of the film will happen . When doing this the characters carry on as if they don't know about the suspense scenes that have occurred whilst they have not been on stage. “The essential fact is to get real suspense you must let the audience have information." -- Alfred Hitchcock
- 12. Surprise and twist Surprise and twist means to create a plot for the viewers to pursue and then change it completely when they are not expecting it. This in turn creates a dramatic effect in order to make sure that the viewer is surprised by the storyline they're now being shown.
- 13. MacGuffin The plot should make sense to the audience in order to create the most interesting dramatic effects.