A thriller is a genre of film, novel, or play that features exciting plots involving crime and espionage. It uses suspense, tension, and excitement to stimulate the viewer's emotions. A thriller features a protagonist and antagonist in constant conflict. It includes many subgenres like psychological thrillers and crime thrillers. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action scenes, and clever heroes facing more powerful villains. Common thriller elements include dramatic music, low lighting, jump cuts, editing techniques like diegetic heavy breathing, varied shot colors/angles, montages, protagonists in danger, ghosts, blood, violence, storms, chase scenes, haunted houses, and villains. Protagonists are usually

1. WHAT IS A THRILLER?

2. A thriller is a play, novel, or film with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage.
A thriller also consists of a protagonist and antagonist who are always in constant defeat with each other. It usually
uses a lot of suspense, tension and excitement to build up their main part of the movie or book and when watching a
thriller, the viewers emotions are stimulating in every sort of way; feeling excited, shocked, exhilarated.
It includes a vast amount of sub genres, such as, psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, horror thrillers, supernatural,
action thrillers etc.
The genre thriller is characterised by fast pacing, frequent action and resourceful heroes who must distinguish the
plans of more-powerful and better equipped villains. There are also literary devices such as suspense, cliff hangers and
red herrings, which are used extensively.

3. CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A THRILLER
Codes and Conventions:
 Dramatic/Tensionmusic
 Low cut lighting for suspense
 Jump Cuts
 Editing
 Diegeticloud heavy breathing
 A variety of different coloured shots
 Changes in the angles of shots
 Montage of shots
 Protagonist is in the mercy of an antagonist
Ghosts
Blood
Death
Violence
Storms
Chase Sequences
Haunted house
Gore
Darkness
Villain
Evil monsters
Killing
Thriller
Enigma
Flashbacks
Flashback
Frights

4. CHARACTERS IN A THRILLER
Protagonists:
This is the main character of the film, who is creating all the problems. However,the role displayed
by the protagonist does become downgraded.
Antagonists:
This is the total opposite of the antagonist, where the antagonist is the hero in the end of the story.
This is the person who saves the other characters from harm or keeps away from death, demolishing
the antagonist.

5. EDITING, MISE EN SCENE AND SOUND
The editing used in thrillerfilms is mainly
a number of jumps and quick cuts. This is
mainly because these shots create a large
amount of suspense and tension to the
audience viewing it, which is definitely
what the producers want the audiencesto
feel.
In thrillermovies, the
sound/musicis always upbeat or
slow, to create pressure and to
tense up the audience. This also
can get the audience to think
about what could happen and put
the in the characters ‘shoes’.
Usually in the movie, it starts
off with a normal scene and
then just buildsup to the main
dilemma or wrong situation.
The clothing which is displayed
is also normal, meaning day-to-
day clothing,people wearing
casual.

6. THRILLER FILMS
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