The document provides an overview of the thriller/horror genre. It discusses the nature of protagonists (who rely on mental strength rather than physical), antagonists (who are darker with selfish motivations), and the dramatic action (featuring crime, violence and murder). It also covers common narrative elements like nonlinear storytelling, flashbacks, an atmosphere of creepiness and tension, and resolutions that often lack a happy ending. The case study section analyzes the characters and plot of the film "Saw", highlighting secrets, suspense and an open-ended conclusion that leaves the protagonists suffering.

3. SHAPE OF DRAMATIC ACTION An atmosphere of creepy menace and sudden violence, crime and murder characterize thrillers or horrors. Most horror or thriller movies follow a one-by-one death trend. Brutality showed in horror or thriller movies is very high compared to any other genre of movies.

4. CATALYTIC EVENT Catalytic event in horror/thriller movies is mostly a character who is related to an event of the past. It is that event which drives the antagonist or protagonist to take the story forward.

6. CASE STUDY DipayanBhattacharjee RundolfMawlieh Llewelyn Fernandez

8. Another strange character of “Jigsaw” is that he loved to watch his victims as they would try and struggle for their lives. Ruthless to the core of his soul, the irony of his character is that he would only take those people as his targets who he thought did not value life as they should.

9. SHAPE OF DRAMATIC ACTION The film was inflamed with a lot of twisted dramatic structures. The most intriguing factor of the film was the fact that it kept on holding to an eerie consequent forms of suspense and ultimately, comes out with a bang of surprises.

10. CATALYTIC EVENT The catalytic event in this film would be the various secrets that keep unfolding about each of the primary characters, viz. the photographer, the doctor, the policeman, the various victims of Jigsaw, and Jigsaw himself.

11. THE RESOLUTION Saw is a film which unlike most other movies does not end on a very positive note. In addition to that, it ends almost in an open ended format. At the end of the film we find one of the characters, (the photographer) being trapped in the filthy bathroom forever with barely any hopes of escape. The antagonistgets the upper hand and the protagonists are all left to suffer.

12. NARRATIVE STYLE The film follows are non-linear narrative structure. Each of the characters are introduced, not in serial order, but as and when required by the script to let the audience know more about them. Flash-backs played a very important role in the narrative structure as the audience gets to know more about most of the characters through flash-backs.

13. TONE The tone followed by the director in the making of this film is keeping every character in deep suspense. None of the characters seem to know about the other, except Jigsaw, who seems to know about everyone. Most of the characters also carry a high self-pride which does not allow them to bend in front of the other. They all try to show their own importance and power, whereas they all were a part of Jigsaw’s game.

14. GAME OVER..!!