Thriller Genre Research
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Thriller movies use tension, suspense, and excitement to engage audiences. They typically involve mysteries that endanger protagonists or situations that disrupt equilibrium. Common elements include mystery, danger, dark themes, and action scenes. Many thrillers follow Todorov's Theory of Equilibrium, where an initial state is disrupted, recognized, attempted to be resolved, and equilibrium is restored or a new one is created. Additionally, protagonists are often vulnerable and unable to rely solely on force. Example thriller movies listed are Psycho, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, The Silence of the Lambs, and Inception.
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Thrillers feature ordinary people who experience extraordinary events. They aim to provoke emotions like suspense, fear, and anxiety in viewers. Thrillers typically build tension throughout the plot until reaching a climactic conclusion, and often involve an antagonist like a criminal or psychopath threatening the main characters. Character development usually occurs as the story progresses rather than being the initial focus, and plots commonly use nonlinear storytelling with flashbacks or shifts in perspective to enhance mystery. Common settings are ordinary neighborhoods or exotic locales.
Thriller and suspense
Thriller and suspense movies typically feature criminals or stalkers as main characters. Common themes include fights, chases, kidnappings, murders, and killings. Suspense in these genres is meant to be unpredictable, memorable, and intertwined with hope and fear. Storylines usually involve problems, escapes, mysteries or missions, often portrayed through fight or chase scenes. The goal is to keep audiences feeling what the characters feel - on the edge of their seats experiencing terror, anxiety, and uncertainty. Main elements include violence, excitement, and exhilaration portrayed in a personal way.
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Sub-genres
Action thrillers use physical action and stunts to create suspense and tension. Plots often involve guns or weapons and keep the audience feeling danger and on the edge of their seats. Psychological thrillers focus on mental and emotional tension between characters and situations that are difficult to escape. Crime thrillers involve violence to build anxiety about what will happen next and focus on a criminal's plans and motivations. Horror thrillers feature a mentally ill killer who aims to play with audiences' emotions by instilling fear and terror through a frightening atmosphere.
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Thriller films aim to build tension and suspense by placing protagonists in difficult situations involving crimes like murder that they must solve. Common narrative elements include protagonists confronting crimes or evil schemes, multiple chase and fight scenes, and a final showdown between good and evil. Typical characters include a main protagonist like a detective solving a disruption, the main antagonist committing crimes, and supporting characters like detectives, police, victims, henchmen, and love interests. While most thrillers follow this structure, there are also subgenres like action, crime, psychological, and romantic thrillers that vary the focus, pace, and type of suspense involved.
Thriller
An action thriller combines action and thriller elements and features fast-paced stories racing against the clock, with a lot of violence and clear antagonists. They contain explosions and gun fights, though other elements like mystery and crime take secondary roles. Examples include James Bond films. A crime thriller combines crime and thriller genres to offer suspenseful accounts of successful or failed crimes involving murders, shootouts, and double crosses. The Godfather is an example. An erotic thriller blends eroticism and thriller since the 1980s, with Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction as examples. A horror thriller shows the mental, emotional, and physical conflicts facing main characters, setting it apart through sustained fear. Psycho is an example
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Our idea is to create a short psychological thriller film about a person suffering from paranoia. We will use film techniques like fast cuts to convey the character's state of mind but won't explicitly tell the audience they have paranoia, leaving it open to interpretation. Thrillers create suspense and tension, usually involving a character in a dangerous mystery. There are subgenres like psychological thrillers where the conflict is mental rather than physical. We plan to use codes like an ambiguous ending, fast cuts, shadows, and over the shoulder shots to increase tension and unease.
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Our idea is to create a short psychological thriller film about a person suffering from paranoia. We will use film techniques like fast cuts to convey this without explicitly telling the audience about the character's condition, leaving it open to various interpretations. Thrillers create suspense and tension by placing characters in dangerous mysteries from which escape seems impossible, often involving unsuspecting people. We plan to use conventions like an ambiguous ending, rapid editing, shadows, and over-the-shoulder shots to build tension without resolution or explanation.
What is a thriller
A thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television that keeps audiences alert by stimulating their emotions. There are several subgenres of thrillers, including action, crime, psychological, and science fiction thrillers. Action thrillers incorporate physical action and danger, while crime thrillers involve crimes like serial killers. Psychological thrillers create suspense through the unknown mind, and science fiction thrillers explore threats from the future. Key themes in thrillers involve protagonists facing death or danger from stronger antagonists like criminals or aliens. Famous directors like Steven Spielberg have made acclaimed films across various thriller subgenres over several decades.
What is a thriller
Thrillers are a broad genre that encompass literature, film, and television. They aim to keep audiences engaged through suspense and tension created by techniques like plot twists and sound design. Thrillers vary in their elements but commonly include mystery, horror, action, and psychological components. They typically conclude stories in unexpected ways that leave audiences on the edge of their seats.
Narrative structure
Narrative structure in films typically follows a three-act structure of beginning, middle, and end. This includes establishing an initial equilibrium, a disruption that introduces a problem, and restoring order by resolving the problem. Several narrative theories describe common patterns in film structure. Todorov's theory outlines a five-stage process from equilibrium to equilibrium via disruption, realization, restoring order. Propp's theory categorizes character types like heroes, villains, and helpers. Levi-Strauss theory views narratives as differences of opinion, such as good vs evil.
Narrative Theory
This document discusses several theories of narrative structure:
1. Todorov's theory identifies 5 stages in narrative structure: equilibrium, disruption, recognition of disruption, attempt to repair, return to equilibrium.
2. Propp's theory analyzed character types and roles in folk tales, identifying 7 common character types. His theory also described 4 key elements in the middle of stories.
3. Levi-Strauss analyzed myths and identified the concept of "binary oppositions" as a key part of narrative conflict and climax.
4. The classic Hollywood narrative structure follows a 5 part structure of exposition, development, complication, climax, and resolution.
Narrative theory ppt
This document discusses several theories of narrative structure in film. It explains Todorov's theory that most narratives follow a 5-stage pattern: equilibrium, disruption of equilibrium, recognition of disruption, repairing damage, and new equilibrium. An example from the film Jennifer's Body is provided. It also outlines Vladimir Propp's analysis of 31 narrative functions across folktales. Character types from the film Horns are mapped onto Propp's framework. Finally, it discusses Levi-Strauss's theory that narratives rely on binary oppositions that create and resolve conflict.
Conventions for the thriller genre
This presentation outlines the key conventions of the thriller genre. It discusses typical elements such as storylines involving protagonists facing dangers or mysteries to solve, with antagonists posing stronger threats. Characters usually include those supporting the protagonist or antagonist. Settings are often ordinary cities where danger arises. Themes revolve around justice and morality, while editing and sound are used to build tension and suspense for audiences.
Thriller codes and conventions
Thrillers aim to provide thrills and keep audiences engaged through tension and anticipation. They involve characters facing dangers like mysteries, missions, or escapes. Common technical elements include quick cuts, low lighting, and tense music to build suspense. Thrillers often evolve around double emotions and switch audiences between anxiety for characters and enjoyment of the film. Common subgenres include action, crime, disaster, and psychological thrillers involving threats like crimes, disasters, or conspiracies that characters must work to defeat.
Thriller Convetions As Media
1) Thrillers are a movie genre with many subgenres that follow different rules to create effects like dramatic irony and engage audiences.
2) Thrillers typically take place in isolated foreign locations to seem realistic, though some modern thrillers challenge this.
3) Key thriller conventions include a protagonist versus antagonist, complex narratives with clues and evidence, and themes of revenge. Thrillers combine genres like horror, action, mystery and crime.
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Thrillers use suspense, tension, and excitement to keep audiences alert and on the edge of their seats. The genre involves a main character facing danger as they try to solve a problem like an escape, mission, or mystery. Common subgenres are psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, and mystery thrillers. Famous thriller films include Seven, Drive, Memento, Inception, Pulp Fiction, The Silence of the Lambs, Vertigo, Psycho, Die Hard, and The Departed.
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This document discusses the conventions of the thriller genre and how the opening of a thriller film adheres to or subverts some of these conventions. It states that the opening follows Todorov's theory of narratives being led by a cause-and-effect sequence of equilibrium, disequilibrium, and new equilibrium. However, it begins with a slightly uneasy tone rather than total calm. It also ends between equilibrium and disequilibrium with unresolved elements and a cliffhanger. The opening establishes characters of protagonist and antagonist and hints at themes of mystery and torture through flashbacks. However, it lacks a typical thriller element of death in the opening scene.
What makes a thriller?
A thriller aims to thrill audiences by using narratives involving kidnappings, murders, or other puzzles that characters must solve. Camera techniques like tracking shots set the scene while close-ups build tension. Common thriller themes include crime, mystery, psychological manipulation, paranoia, and espionage. Locations are often cities or exotic places that set the mood, while characters usually include a protagonist, antagonist, detective, and femme fatale. Mise-en-scene elements like low-key lighting, eerie music, trench coats, and props build atmosphere and suspense.
Research
The document discusses research on the codes and conventions of thriller films, including camera techniques, editing, sound, lighting, and settings that create suspense and tension. It also analyzes several example thriller films like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Inception, and The Bourne Ultimatum, examining how they employ conventions like narrative trajectory, timescape, and character ethos. Finally, it covers different subgenres of thrillers like comedy, drama, mystery, crime, horror, and action thrillers.
Notes on thriller films
Thrillers are characterized by eliciting feelings of suspense, excitement, anticipation and anxiety in viewers. They revolve around keeping the audience on the edge of their seats as the protagonist faces danger or solves a mystery. Alfred Hitchcock was an early pioneer of the thriller genre in the 1920s-1930s. Thrillers have become more sophisticated over time with advances in film editing and technology. Common thriller subgenres include crime thrillers focusing on criminals and heists, and horror thrillers that blend thrills and scares. Key differences between thrillers and horror are that horror focuses more on gore and death while thrillers emphasize suspense. Example thriller films include Paranormal Activity, Saw, Jaws,
Genre analysis
The document discusses the thriller/suspense genre. It defines thrillers as focusing on suspense, tension, and excitement to stimulate moods like anticipation, uncertainty, and anxiety in viewers. Thrillers keep audiences on the "edge of their seats" with plots building towards a climax. The document then lists and briefly describes common thriller subgenres like crime thrillers, disaster thrillers, psychological thrillers, and more. It also discusses conventions of the genre including lighting, editing techniques, themes involving protagonists facing death, and investigations of mysteries. In conclusion, it notes lighting, locations, cinematography, and famous examples are important aspects of successful thrillers.
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.
Research into Typical Thriller Synopsis Final
Thriller movies use mysterious and suspenseful plots to elicit emotions like fear, excitement, and tension in audiences. They often end episodes with cliffhangers that increase panic and engage viewers by making them wonder what will happen next. Thrillers may combine genres, like adventure thrillers that involve mysteries set across locations, or psychological thrillers incorporating supernatural elements. Common thriller elements include masks to hide antagonists' identities, blood to signify danger, and weapons used to capture or harm protagonists.
Todorov
Todorov's theory proposes that narratives follow a 5-step structure: 1) an initial state of equilibrium is established, 2) something disrupts this equilibrium, 3) the disruption is recognized, 4) an attempt is made to repair the disruption, and 5) a new equilibrium is reached. This structure is then demonstrated using the example of a zombie apocalypse story, tracing the narrative from the initial peaceful setting through to the disruption by zombies, realization of the problem, effort to find a cure, and ultimate defeat of zombies and restoration of a new normal state.
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This document discusses the genre of thrillers. It defines thrillers as plots that provide excitement, tension, danger and uncertainty through devices like villains, obstacles, and cliffhangers. It explores common characteristics of thrillers including fast pacing, terror, anxiety and surprise. It also outlines several subgenres of thrillers like psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, mystery thrillers, action thrillers, horror thrillers, erotic thrillers, torturing thrillers, spy thrillers and techno-thrillers. It provides examples for each subgenre and discusses common characters found in thrillers. It also analyzes the American film director David Fincher and his body of thriller films.
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- 2. Definitionof a thrillermovie Definitionof a thrillermovie The genre of thriller is an item of media that uses tension, suspense and excitement as its main elements. Thrillers tend to vary the emotional response and tone of the movie greatly and often, as a mystery is uncovered, a character is endangered or the protagonists are victorious. Thriller films tend to have elements of mystery, a sense of danger, dark subjects and storylines, as well as some action or tension scenes.
- 3. Narrative conventions Of the thrillergenre Narrative conventions Of the thrillergenre Thriller movies often follow Todorov’s Theory of Equilibrium. This is the theory that almost all film narratives follow these five steps: 1. There is a state of equilibrium. 2. The equilibrium is disrupted by an event. 3. The disruption is recognised by the protagonists. 4. The protagonists attempt to resolve the problem. 5. The equilibrium is restored, or a new equilibrium is created. Many thriller movies follow Todorov’s theory, but there are also other conventions of the thriller genre. For example, the protagonist is usually vulnerable, or endangered in some way – or is otherwise unable to solve the problem in the story by force alone, like in action movies.
- 4. Examplesof Thriller moviesExamplesof Thrillermovies Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior George Miller 1981 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 1991 Inception Christopher Nolan 2010