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Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Conventions of Thriller

The main aspects of Thriller are important to estabilish and understand in order to create a thriller piece. Thriller films apply to a strict and general point of views. A thriller film can fit and overlap many categories, research allows the makers of these films to pick and choose which conventions suit their ideas and would be the most pleasing for an audience.

Thriller conventionally uses suspense, twists, tension and excitement to cdreate a film. Atmosphere is an important part of all of this, without atmosphere the story cannot thrill, if the thrills are given with no thought to how they play out than they will not thrill, they will be bland. Sound is a big part of the thriller genre, as seeing is not a convention of the thriller, the story can rely solely on sound to describe a situation, eliminating the chance of the audience seeing what is happening. Thios iontensifies the thrill of the vent, whether it is an unseen entity left to the imagination to perceive, or a character commiting a monstrous act, and that character being revealed later.

Thriller is all about giving the audience as little as possible, you ghive an audience too much information on the films subject and they know whats going to happen but if you rveal information at an unsure pace, give false information, then the audince will expect something to happen before something they didnt see coming happens. Its not enough for an audience to see characters on the screen being thrilled or under tension, the audience must feel it too.

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