The document outlines several codes and conventions that are commonly used in thriller movies, including creating a sense of mystery through lighting, music, editing, and mise-en-scene techniques, as well as using stereotypical representations of gender and symbolic props. The information is intended to help the reader produce an outstanding opening for their own thriller film by applying these cinematic techniques and conventions.

1. Some general key points I learnt
through research about the codes
and conventions of thriller movies:
This will be very useful when creating my
thriller movie as I can use my knowledge and
understanding to produce a outstanding
thriller opening.

2. • Sense of mystery and enigma – to
engage and interest the audience
• Low key lighting: provides anxiety in
the atmosphere for tension
• Flash backs promote a sense of time
and space disorientation which
makes the audience confused
• Music – adds suspense and makes
the audience feel a particular way
and enables the story to go forward.

3. • Editing at fast past entices the audience
• Mise en scene: such as props can be used
to represent something for example guns
represent death
• Men are stereotypically protagonist
• Women are represented stereotypically
as victims
• Mirrors are used to represent the
darkness within the characters