Today in lesson we began to study the Thriller genre for our latest piece of coursework. We need to study this so that we know the conventions of the Thriller genre in order to help us make our opening of a Thriller film for our coursework. In lesson we found out the differences between a horror and a thriller due to alot of the class listing off horror films that they believed to be a thriller, me amongst them. We learnt that the main difference between a horror and a thriller is that you rarely see violence in thrillers, and if you do it would be toned down compare to a horror where you would see blood and murder. Then we began to watch Memento. A thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan. It is a mystery thriller. We only watched the first 10 minutes or so and we can see that it is a very confusing storyline that requires alot of concentration. We learnt that to be succesful in our coursework that we will need to use all of the conventions of a thriller so watching thriller films will be very helpful.
We also discussed some of the conventions of the thriller genre:
- Fast Tempo Music
- Jumpy Scenes
- One Victimised Character
- Fighting Scenes
- Dark
- Nightime
- Violence
- Tension
- Ask's Questions
- Suspicion
- Eary Music
- Confusion
- Shock
- Screams
- Misty Scenes
- Trivial Scenes
These are the main conventions that you would expect to see in a thriller film. We will need to include these conventions if we are to be succesful in our coursework.
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