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The document outlines some common conventions and elements of thriller films. It discusses the feelings thrillers aim to create such as suspense, tension, and anxiety. It also lists some common thriller genres, iconography used in thrillers like weapons and urban settings, and character types frequently seen such as soldiers, spies, and criminals. Themes like terrorism, conspiracy, and psychology are also mentioned. Narratives in thrillers aim to keep audiences on the edge of their seats and involve characters facing threatening situations and conflicts that endanger their lives.
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Thriller is a genre that uses suspense and tension to excite and anticipate the audience. It contains a rush of emotion and exhilaration. Common subgenres include psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, and mystery thrillers. Thrillers emphasize danger to the protagonist through covered up information, fight or chase scenes, and placing characters in dangerous or deadly situations. They also emphasize solving the puzzle of the plot through clues available to both the viewer and main character. Common settings include ordinary cities and exotic foreign locations.
Codes and conventions of a thriller
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
Thrillers rely on suspense, tension, and excitement. They stimulate audiences' emotions through fast pacing, gritty scenes, and anxiety. Thrillers keep audiences on the edge of their seats through plot twists, red herrings, and cliffhangers. Common thriller elements include criminals, assassins, terrorists as characters, as well as manipulation of sound, editing, lighting and location to increase fear and tension. Antagonists are typically truly frightening or disturbing forces that psychologically challenge protagonists.
Genre Analysis and Conventions of Thriller Genre
The thriller genre uses suspense, tension, and excitement to drive the plot. It provokes strong emotions in audiences, especially suspense and tension. Thrillers have many subgenres and commonly feature danger of death for protagonists or others, antagonists that are initially stronger than protagonists, mysteries that must be resolved, and themes of justice and morality. Common elements include ominous music, knives symbolizing violence, mirrors suggesting hidden sides, and shadows creating mystery.
Codes and conventions of thrillers
This document outlines some common codes and conventions of thriller films. It lists typical thriller themes such as terrorism, crime, pursuit, and psychological mind games. It also identifies sub-genres of thrillers like action, crime, film-noir, psychological, and science fiction thrillers. Common thriller characters include criminals, police, psychotic individuals, and spies. The document then provides an analysis of the film Inception, noting how it contains codes and conventions of thrillers through its criminal main character, use of weapons, and exploration of psychological themes.
Subgenres presentation
This document defines and provides examples of various subgenres of thriller films, including mystery thrillers, crime thrillers, action thrillers, supernatural thrillers, conspiracy thrillers, psychological thrillers, and political thrillers. It explains that subgenres are categories within a main genre that include certain traits from other genres. Each subgenre section then provides a brief definition and examples of movies that fall within that subgenre.
Conventions of a thriller
A thriller is a genre that revolves around anticipation and tension, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats. There are many sub-genres of thrillers including crime thrillers, spy thrillers, horror thrillers, and psychological thrillers. Crime thrillers in particular involve crimes like murders and robberies, with fast-paced action and suspense as the protagonist investigates and antagonists scheme.
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Thriller conventions
- 2. Thriller
- 3. Codes and Conventions of basic Thrillers • Feelings thriller creates: • Excitements • Suspense • Anticipation • Nerve wracking Tension • Anxiety • Uncertainty
- 4. Main Thriller genres • Psychological Thriller • Action and Adventure Thriller • Sci-fi Thriller • Religious Thriller
- 5. Iconography • Cars • Weapons • Urban Settings • Tension Building music • Fast Paced Editing • Low Lighting
- 6. Characters: • Conflicts • Soldiers • Spies • Law Enforcements • Stalkers • Men Associated with danger • Criminals • Assassins • Innocent Citizens • Psychotic Character • Prison Inmates • The Hero
- 7. Themes • Terrorism • Political Conspiracy • Asasination • Suspense • Chase • Spies • Crime • Supernatural Events • Psychology mind games • Provide better client interaction
- 8. Thriller Narratives: • A genuine thriller is a film that relentlessly pursues a single-mindedA genuine thriller is a film that relentlessly pursues a single-minded goal - to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging at thegoal - to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats' as the lot builds towards a climax.'edge of their seats' as the lot builds towards a climax. • Tension usually arises when the main character's is placed in aTension usually arises when the main character's is placed in a threatening situation, mystery, or an dangerous mission from whichthreatening situation, mystery, or an dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible.escape seems impossible. • Life itself is threatened, usually because the principal character isLife itself is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentiallyunsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation.deadly situation. • Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict withPlots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces.each other or with outside forces.
- 9. Examples:
- 10. Examples: