conventions and characters

1. THRILLER CONVENTIONS
What is typically seen in a thriller movie?

2. TYPICAL CONVENTIONS OF A THRILLER
• Designed to create suspense for the viewers by using suspenseful and have lots of action throughout.
• They aim to shock startle and scare the audience, they do this by using cliff hangers.
• There is usually a twist involved.
• Usually investigators, damsel in distress and good vs. evil.
• Cliff hangers, suspense, red herrings.
• Villain driven plot usually base it around the villain and sometimes you don't even know who they are.
• Deliberately try to confuse the audience, so enigma makes to wanting more.
• They are usually characterised by fast pacing, frequent action and hero's and villains.
• Can over lap with mystery stories but are distinguished by the structure of the plot.
• Thrillers are influenced by tragedy and sometimes the hero dies along the way.
• Tracking and pan shots are commonly used within a the camera movement of a thriller.
• They also consist of a lot of zooming in and out mainly to catch the expressions of someone’s face when the action is taking
place.
• Close up shots are commonly used because they create mystery because you can see what they are feeling but you don’t
know why, creating enigma because you wan to know.
• High angles are used to show that someone is powerful, or to show a new character who has just come onto the scene .
• Jump cuts are also used a lot throughout, this is used because there are many things going on at once, it also makes it more
tense because so many things are happening.

3. Thrillers
The genre thriller has a lot of
conventions that need to be included so
that it can be classed as a thriller. Also
they have to ensure that they get it
correct otherwise it can be seen as a
mystery because the two are quite close
to each other. So me

4. THRILLER SHOT TYPES ANALYSIS
The James Bond image they are looking down on the subject in a high angle shot this is done
to make him look vulnerable, however because he has the phallic symbol of the gun in his
hand it also make him look powerful, more so than if he was empty handed. Another example
of a shot type is Brad Pitt thing use a close up, this shows us his emotions. From his emotions
we can infer that he is angry, but also very sad, he also looks torn like he could have an
attachment to the person he is going to shot and doesn’t know whether he can do it. You can
infer so many didn’t things from a close some an be correct and some not very much. This is
why it is done though so it add enigma so you want to find out why, what, how, when, who is
going on in the scene. In the image of Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt they are looking up at
the subjects using a low angle shot this makes them look powerful and it makes them appear
taller than they actually are suggesting there importance.