Thriller conventions
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Thriller films follow conventions to build tension and engage audiences, including innocent protagonists in difficult situations, mysteries or false accusations, and an increasing pace leading to a climax. Common thriller themes involve crime, murder, revenge, romance triangles, mystery, isolation, voyeurism, and psychological elements. Settings are often isolated rural areas or urban environments enabling hiding. Protagonists are usually innocent heroes unaccustomed to danger, while antagonists include criminals, stalkers, assassins or psychotic individuals. Editing and sound techniques like montages, altered camera angles, and non-diegetic ambient sounds also build tension in thriller conventions.
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Horror films traditionally employ certain conventions including visual styles like red colors signifying danger, props like weapons identifying villains, and iconic monsters. Camera techniques like close-ups build suspense, while settings provide isolation. Narratives usually feature a hero battling an undefeatable villain, with stereotypical characters dying in order of weakness. However, modern horrors subvert conventions by omitting villains, having unpredictable outcomes, and featuring unconventional characters and themes.
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This document discusses common elements of horror films including typical synopses involving revenge, hauntings, demons, and serial killers. It notes that horror films often take place in abandoned buildings at night and feature props like weapons and masks. Common characters include victims, villains like serial killers, "stupid" teenagers, and possessed children. The camera work aims to induce fear through techniques like high and low angles, point-of-view shots, handheld footage, and disturbing sounds.
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The document outlines several genre conventions commonly used in horror films. It discusses conventions for cinematography, costumes, lighting, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, characters, narratives, and subgenres. Specifically, it notes that horror films often use handheld cameras, close-ups, low angles, dark lighting, fake blood, weapons, abandoned settings, jump cuts, screams, psychotic antagonists, and a narrative where victims are attacked by the antagonist. It also provides a timeline of the development of the horror genre from the 1700s to today.
Genre conventions cover work
The document outlines several genre conventions commonly used in horror films. It discusses conventions for cinematography, costumes, lighting, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, characters, narratives, and subgenres. Specifically, it notes that horror films often use handheld cameras, close-ups, low angles, dark/gloomy lighting, fake blood, abandoned settings, jump scares, screams, slashers involving a serial killer murdering people. The concluding section reflects on which conventions the reader may employ for a horror film opening.
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Thrillers rely on suspense, tension, and excitement to stimulate the audience's emotions. They keep viewers on the "edge of their seats" through the use of plot devices like cliffhangers. Thrillers commonly feature criminals, assassins, or law enforcement as protagonists overcoming obstacles posed by villains. Technical codes like lighting and editing techniques, as well as character and plot tropes involving heroines surviving threats, are used to create suspense and tension in the thriller genre.
Codes and conventions of a thriller
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Genre research
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This document provides an overview of common elements found in thriller films. It discusses celebrity actors commonly associated with the genre, such as Samuel L. Jackson and Tom Cruise. Narratives in thrillers often involve crime or mysteries with unanswered questions. Common character types include criminals, stalkers, and vulnerable victims. Thriller films typically use urban settings and feature investigative scenes, murders, and intense drama with corresponding dramatic music scores.
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This document outlines various genre conventions that are commonly used in horror films. It discusses conventions related to sound, editing, mise-en-scene, cinematography, plot, locations/settings, characters, and representations of females. Key sound conventions include loud music, screams, and heavy breathing used to build tension. Common editing techniques are jump cuts, parallel editing, and shot reverse shot. Mise-en-scene often involves dark lighting, props like knives and masks, and costumes with fake blood. Cinematography may use unique angles, handheld shots, and close-ups. Common plots involve deaths, possessions, and missing people. Typical settings are houses, woods, churches, and abandoned buildings. Recurring
Horror genre conventions
The document discusses conventions and technical codes commonly found in horror genre films. Some key elements mentioned include isolated or abandoned settings like forests, houses, or hospitals that connote fear; the use of camera angles, lighting, sounds, and editing to build suspense and tension; common props like weapons or masks; and character archetypes like the victim, villain, or police officers involved. Narrative structures frequently follow a formula where a killer returns to prey on immoral teenagers, with one survivor, and themes often deal with good versus evil, the supernatural, or madness.
Horror genre conventions
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Thriller conventions
- 1. Thriller Conventions Georgia Ray
- 2. • The Thriller genre follows specific devices to build tension and engage an audience. They tend to increase in pace to keep them on edge towards the climax of the film. Sub-genres of the Thriller genre are: • Crime • Psychological • Revenge • Supernatural • Political Despite the different sub-genres, they still hold the same stereotypical thriller conventions and characteristics.
- 3. Plot Conventions • Involves innocent character/s (protagonist/s) being put in a difficult situations which involve them escaping in some way. • This plot line may be confused by false accusation or mistaken identity (known as an enigma) • The film increases in pace, leading towards a climax in order to keep an audience engaged.
- 4. Themes • Crime • Murder/Death • Revenge • Romance triangles (may lead to murder) • Mystery • Isolation • Voyeurism • Dangerous World • Psychological
- 5. Setting Usually in one type of setting or another: •Either isolated settings, rural such as farm houses/fields etc •Urban environments such as cities or other built up areas that enable easy hiding. This is used mostly in Crime Thrillers.
- 6. Character/s • Protagonist- innocent hero who is unaccustomed to danger. This gives more sympathy from the audience. • Antagonist- May be criminals, stalkers, assassins, psychotic individuals etc. Other character's tend to be victims of the antagonist.
- 7. Iconogrpahy • Confined spaces • CCTV cameras • Mirrors • Weapons, e.g. knives • Photographers • Finger Prints • Running water • Lamps • Shadows
- 8. Editing • Increasing shot pace, cutting them closer together • Static • High contrast • Montage editing • Altering camera angle • Blur
- 9. Sound • Non-diegetic – ambience, synth sounds to build tension and give an eerie atmosphere. Sometimes orchestral. Slow to past paced. • Diegetic- heartbeat, static, heavy breathing, creaky door/floorboards, slamming doors etc.
- 10. Sound • Non-diegetic – ambience, synth sounds to build tension and give an eerie atmosphere. Sometimes orchestral. Slow to past paced. • Diegetic- heartbeat, static, heavy breathing, creaky door/floorboards, slamming doors etc.