genres are classification of any type or form of art into a category. for example the movie "se7en" will be classify as a thriller or to be more precise a psychological thriller because the main story is centred upon a mental antagonist who murders his victims by the sins they have committed another example for genres is the book "Romeo and Juliet" which is categorised in tragedy literature genre.
a thriller is a type of genre that can either be a film or book that which gives the audience a suspense feeling as well as keeping them on the edge of their seat with excitement and built tension because they may know more than the characters and expect something bad to happen during the film. most thrillers tends to have a lot of red herrings making the audience believe they know plot what will happen next in the film. but in a blink of an eye there will always be a sudden plot twist creating suspense making it insupportable of the audience.
- Psycho (1960) a horror-thriller
- the usual suspect (1995)
- the third man (1949)
- reservoir dogs (1992)
- se7en (1995)
- the french connection (1971)
- shutter island (2010)
Sub-genres of thrillers:
A sub-genre gives precise description of each genre category. every genres are broken down into small sub-genres, for example a main film genre is could be a "thriller", the genre itself does not given enough information about a film so therefore there are sub-genres such action thriller, psychological thriller, sci-fi thriller and religious thriller. the sub-genres let know what to expect when watching the film.
Some examples of sub-genres in thriller are as follows:
- Crime Thriller
- Action Thriller
- psychological thriller
- sci-fi thriller
- religious thriller
- conspiracy thriller
- Eco-thriller
- forensic thriller
- legal thriller
- medical thriller
- political thriller
- supernatural thriller
Thrillers needs to follow conventions in order to get the right response from the audience. an example of a thriller conventions is eerie sounds. eerie sounds is a an unpleasant type of sound which makes the audience feel frightened or disturbed, and its also used to build tension during a movie. another convention of thriller is exotic location. most thriller movies would be set in the wood which is seen as a mysterious and dangerous place holding a lot of surprises for audience.
Some examples of conventions:
- A psychotic character
- Low-key lighting
- Eerie sound
- mirrors
- obtrusive editing
- flashbacks
- exotic locations
- hero, heroine and villain
- death
- crime
- violence
- murder
Conclude:
Started well Shelah. Thriller conventions and themes drawn upon and good thriller examples included.
ReplyDeleteTo improve;
-where you provide examples of credible thrillers, this is good. Finish the sentence that you have started...
-how do the audience respond to thrillers? Think about psychological and physiological responses here
-what ideas do you know have from this lesson for your own thriller?