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What is a thriller

What are Genres?

Genre is a way of categorizing different type films television games and other media and literature into categories. The notable way of categorizing media is what the main theme of the media is. This could be Action, adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller, Horror and Sci-Fi. Categorizing media allows the viewer to choose an genre that he/she likes. For example they maybe into Thriller Media. Categorizing media like this allows people easier to choose what they like to what they don’t like.

Thriller: Genre

Thriller is a media  that may have a good plot that involves the audience and also it include plot twist that might throw of the reader or viewer. There also use of suspense and tension that is either created throughout the film or during some scenes. The use of different cinematography and editing techniques helps when making an thriller film. An example that is used in thriller film is jump cuts to make some scenes transitioning to other scenes not fluent. Also most thrillers films try to or provoke an reaction from the audience, which could be either excited, horrified or scared.

Examples of thrillers

Unknown.

Unknown is an great example of an psychological thriller. Unknown takes places in Berlin in which the protagonist has to find why he been targeted by assins and try to take back his life. This film lead the audience into different emotions  throughout the film,

Se7en

Se7en is another psychological thriller. The main plot is to find two killers by using the evidence that left behind at the crime scene which refer to the seven deadly sins. This film is highly received and the use of blood and gore adds another aspect to the film. Making it an interesting conventional thriller.








Unstoppable

Unstoppable was disaster thriller in which there was an runaway train carrying chemicals was about to derail into a town that would could cause an massive explosion. The story follows the attempts to stop and two people who managed to stop it. The thriller is good showing things that can go wrong and that it was believable story and it nearly did happen in real life. Since the film was based on a true story.

Sub-Genre of thrillers

Sub genres are when the film has more than one theme that might be in this film for example a thriller film may be psychological and action and notable example of an film that has a sub-genre is James bond which is thriller and there are several sub-genre including spying, action and adventure. Another thriller that has a sub-genre is “The conjuring” the sub-genre that films have is horror and psychological. Sub-genre tells the viewer what the film also includes.

Examples 

Law abiding Citizen

Law abiding citizen is an thriller however the main theme and sub genre within the film is an crime drama thriller.

Se7en

Seven is an neo-nior psychological thriller. The main plot of the film is to find and hunt down two serial killers. 

Insomnia

Insomnia is an crime psychological thriller. The main plot of this film is when an manhunt goes wrong and police officer is wrongly accused of murdering another police officer.

Common conventions and themes of thrillers

Like with most of types of genres there are common convection's and themes to a type of genre. Convection's are what features most in that area in this case it would be thrillers. Here some few examples of convection's.

• Lighting
• Editing Techniques
• The use of props
• Use of transitions
• Dependnt on the sub-genre

Examples of Common conventions on thrillers

• The orphan: Hate, Death, Stereotypes
• Grudge: Murder, Mystery,
•   James Bond, Spying, Action,

[Add an Visual Example]

During a film they maybe a common theme within film. This is usually the main focus on the film and they don't want to go off on an tangent on something else. Doing this will make the film more complicated for the audience and may get bad reviews because of it.

Audience response to thrillers

Depending on the type film and what the reoccurring theme there could be a mixture of feelings of  audience response to the film this could range from "Psychological" this might scare the audience into doing stuff this may include keeping the lights on until they forgot about what they were scared off  "Physiological" This may Provoke an response from the audience from the audience may  provoke and response from the audience. This may include people covering there eyes to their hair standing on end because there are scared of what happens next. This may also provoke diffrent emotions from diffrent people depending on the type of scene that is taking place.

So why are thrillers so popular. 

Personal Oppion

In my opinion thrillers are popular because a lot of people are getting more interesting in them from the famous thrillers like James bond that always make there audience excited and speechless to the indie thrillers that makes there critics speechless. Thrillers have been popular because of there appeal and that it can appeal to a wide variety of people. Also since most horror movies are now a mixture of both thriller and horror this has attracted more people to the genre. and that is such an wide range of different types of thrillers that generally attracted more people to watch this genre more often as well as more films that have an some sort of thriller element

Conclusion

All off this has helped to understand what is the thriller genre. The thriller genre is a genre that always excites people. Finding out what a thriller contained and what the general convection's in a thriller will help with me a coursework because i will able understand how you should produce thriller short and that what i should do and what i should not do. Also it will help me understand what type of angles cinematography and sound that will suite the genre.