It is important that we know thriller conventions so that we can involve them into our film. By involving them into our film, it creates an authentic feel of a typical thriller. To find out some of the thriller conventions i watched some clips of the opening 2 minutes of thrillers and noted down some things they had in common.
- There is normally a crime in the narrative, normally a murder but not necessarily. This keeps the viewer hooked.
- A protagonist who is usually a male
- An antagonist who is usually female
- goodies vs baddies
- The setting is usually dark and isolated
- violence
- flashbacks
- Young people are usually victims
- twist to the narrative
- the person(s) who the viewer is most suspicious of is usually innocent
To enable us to make our treatment as effective as possible and to also enable us to make other elements of the film making process effective, we researched the conventions of our genre so we could incorporate the important conventions into our pre-production.
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