The document defines thrillers as novels or films with exciting crime or action plots that hint at something scary. It provides examples of the thrillers Lucy, Se7en, and Taken, describing Lucy as a sci-fi action thriller about a woman who gains abilities, Se7en as a mystery thriller about detectives hunting a serial killer, and Taken as an action crime thriller about a father rescuing his kidnapped daughter in Europe. The document discusses conventions of the thriller genre like suspense, mystery, stereotypical representations of distressed victims and heroic rescuers, and the use of props, sound, and genres like action to build suspense.

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=MVt32q
oyhi0
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. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.