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Genre Research

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  1. ThrillersGenre Research By Margaret Ansu

  2. Characteristics of a Thriller The “Thriller” Genre is a genre that uses a lot of suspense, through the use of lighting, sound, shot types, use of angles, mise-en-scene ect. By using these techniques it gives the text that tangible sense of doom and surprise as well as that feeling of sustained tension. Giving the audience that cliff-hanging, at the “edge of their seats” feel as they wait in anticipation to see what will happen next as the plot moves towards the climax.

  3. Usual Settings within a Thriller Thrillers usually take place in similar setting because they are the types of settings that gives that give the unsafe, unstable feel to the thriller. These typical thriller settings include: • Costa-Phobic Areas; Elevators, Tunnels, Underground/Subway system • Tiny Rooms; Garages, back room of a shop, Restaurant Freezer • Alley Ways and, • Abandoned Buildings; schools, warehouses, docking bay etc.

  4. Conventions of a Thriller • Mirrors: are used as convention because they can be used to represent the darkness within a character also suggest there is more to the character than to what meets the eye. • Low Key Lighting:gives a darker atmosphere, which is mysterious. Due to a sharper contrast of light in darker areas on screen which produce deep shadows and silhouettes formations.  • Shadows: gives the sense of darkness and sinister behaviour. • Obtrusive Editing: to accentuate the feelings of suspense and tension. Disorientation of time and Space

  5. Conventions of a Thriller cont... • Quick Cuts: sense of uncertainty as well as what Obtrusive Editing does. • Quick Changes in Camera Angles: sense of tension • Tension Music: music that causes a sense of negative emotions such as uncomfortable. • Stairs • Flashbacks: sense of time and space disorientation to confuse audience. Ida of what has happened beforehand in relation to characters. • Use of Photographs • Black and White: accentuates use of shadows adds an effect of feeling quiet eerie and dark at times. • Montage editing

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