This document defines thrillers as films or novels with exciting crime or action plots that hint at something scary. It provides examples of thriller films like Lucy, Se7en, and Taken, analyzing their use of action, suspense, and protagonists versus antagonists. Key elements of thrillers discussed include crime, mystery, suspense, stereotypical representations of characters in distress or on a mission, and conventions like tense music, dark clothing and lighting, and climax scenes.

1. RESEARCHING GENRE
By Siani A Dalby

2. DEFINITION OF
THRILLER
 A definition of a thriller is a novel or film with an exciting plot
this would normally involve crime or actions with a hint of something
that could be seen as scary.

3. TYPES OF THRILLER
 Lucy
 Se7en
 Taken

4. EXAMPLE ONE
 Lucy is an action, sci-fi thriller which has recently been released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVt32qoy
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Lucy is an action, sci-fi thriller because a thriller
film is based on suspense. Action is therefore an
necessity and therefore it helps build the
suspense.
Lucy is the protagonist who
has been caught up in the
middle of the Antagonists
plan.

5. EXAMPLE TWO
 Taken is an action, crime thriller which is based on the idea that a father has
to tried and find his daughter who has been kidnapped in Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ02_Uzf7So
The narrative within a thriller film tends to consist of a
steep incline in suspense and then the climatic scene
where most of the action takes place, then the the
protagonist would beat the antagonist in which the
suspense would then decrease to the same state it was at
the beginning of the scene.

6. EXAMPLE THREE
 Se7en is a Drama, mystery, thriller, when two detectives hunt down a serial
killer who use the seven most deadliest sins to carry out his murders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4YV2_TcCoE
The themes within a thriller film would be the
story of good vs evil, as most thrillers tend to
play on the viewers minds. The issues would be
that the Protagonist can sometimes be viewed as
the bad guy based on their actions.

7. PROPS
 In the film taken there are loads of different types of props used during
the film, this is because the genre is an thriller which is built on suspense and
therefore by including props within the film add my tension to the film
The key elements of taken is that Liam Nelson
is an experienced ex agent and therefore when
his daughter get kidnapped he has to bring out
what he has learnt in the past. This is ironic
because the job that ruined his marriage is the
job that he has to use in order to save his
daughter in time. Therefore guns have to be
used a lot during the film, which also adds
more suspense.

8. SOUND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDBcGT3eifk
This link is a video of ‘Lucy’ soundtrack which is called I am everywhere, this
Is ironic because she is connected to everyone and everything towards the ends
of the film. This is a meaningful song because it is very slow and dark which
called also build a suspense within the film.

9. GENERIC CONVENTIONS
 In a thriller the key element that you would find would be a lot of
crime, action, suspense and sometimes even horror depending on the
type of film.
With se7en the key element
would be mystery because it is
always keeping you on age
throughout the film.

10. GENERIC CONVENTIONS
A list of what conventions you would find in a thriller film would
include…
 There is a lot of action which involve the protagonist and antagonist reaching there
climax with one another.
 The use of music, normally involves really low and dysfunctional sounds all together.
 The clothes that they normally wear involve dark clothes.
 The lighting is normally low because it adds more suspense.
 There is a crime that is committed usually in a thriller film.

11. STEREOTYPICAL
REPRESENTATION
 The stereotypical representation of Taken would be the girl who is
in distressed because she has been kidnapped and then her father who
is an ex- agent has to fly to Europe in order of getting his daughter
home safe.

12. STEREOTYPICAL
REPRESENTATION
 The stereotypical representation of Lucy would be that you have a
group of Antagonist who have a plan but in order for the plan to
work they need to get an innocent young women involved. Towards
the end the Antagonist loose because there mission does not go the
way that they had wanted it to go.

13. STEREOTYPICAL
REPRESENTATION
 The stereotypical representation of Se7en is that you have to
protagonist who are trying to help captured a serial killer who would
be the antagonist. The view involves a number of high and lows.

14. SUM UP THRILLER
 Overall a thriller type of film would involve a variety of different
things such as action, crime and sometimes horrors. The element that
I will be using in my final project would be a thriller with the element
of action because it helps with the suspense of the whole movie.