A thriller is a genre found in literature, movies, and television that uses suspense to keep audiences wondering what will happen next. Thrillers typically involve crimes or horror and feature extraordinary things happening to ordinary people. Thrillers are normally marketed toward late teens to early thirties who enjoy psychological movies and like to be fully engaged in the movie experience. Conventions of thrillers include dark color schemes, themes of isolation, props like guns to create tension, and constant twists in the plot. Thrillers differ from horrors in that they focus more on realistic reactions and the victim's perspective through suspense, while horrors emphasize graphic violence for its own sake.

1. THRILLERS
By Esther & Ellie

2. • A thriller is genre found in literature, movies and television. It
uses suspense in order to keep the audience wondering what is
going to happen next. Thrillers of have a crime or horror
theme. Thrillers normally have that element of surprise,
extraordinary things happening to ordinary people.
What is a
thriller ?

3. WHO ARE THRILLERS
MARKETED TO?
• Thrillers are normally marketed at people who enjoy
psychological movies, people who like to think and be apart
of the movie experience. The main themes of a thriller is
suspense and tension, so I would say they are more likely
targeted to the age range of late teens to late twenties/ early
thirties. I feel this is solely because people within this age
range are most likely to have appreciation for the all the
anticipation thrillers contain and the art form of how the
story line was built up when all the dots of the thriller is
connected.

4. CONVENTIONS OF A
THRILLER
• Dark colour schemes and low-key lighting to connote mystery and suspense
• Themes of isolation which shows the character as vulnerable in comparison to
the antagonist
• Props such as guns are used to signify terror – creates tension and suspense
• Distressed appearance
• Tension
• Constant twists in the plot
• Protagonist vs. antagonist. The antagonist initially has control over the
situation and the power and the power shifts half way through to feature the
protagonist in control
• Narrative dominated by the protagonist point of view showing the problem
that the protagonist must overcome

5. HOW ARE THRILLERS
DIFFERENT TO HORRORS?
• Thrillers are more of the art behind the madness, its mostly focused on the
victims point of view, how they feel and think. All based around suspense,
where as horrors are more gruesome for no reason for example someone could
get there head chopped off and it would be normal for the people in the movie
to see but in thrillers if that was to happen there would be more real reactions,
thrillers show the more realistic side of horrid things. I personally feel as one of
the main aims of a good thriller is to make the audience feel as if that situation
could happen in real life.
• Horrors purposes is to make things as graphic and violence as possible with
much more killings for no reason.
• However, there can be a horror thriller that does contain the suspense and
action of thriller but also the gruesome gore from horrors e.g. cabin in the
woods

6. EXAMPLES OF THRILLERS