Task 2: Research into Existing Productions ( Thriller)

The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television. It includes numerous, often overlapping sub-genres.
Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings, and cliffhangers are used extensively.

Research into the Topic Of Thriller Genre

A thriller is based on Codes and conventions to make it work and pull an audience in and keep therm entertained to encourtage them to keep watching, examples of these are;

Surprises and twists - This could be a little twists such as a character to going into a different door than they were supposed to. Or a big twist such as a killer turning out to be a different character these both also create the element of surprise.

Quick Cuts & Change Of Camera Angle - This can give the audience the feeling that they are right there taking place in all the action. This can be sucvh as a low angle to show importance of a character or high angle to show fear or little importance in the character. Quick cuts are used to add suspsence or tension and make them want to watch on.

Music To Add Tension - This can be diagetic or non-diagetic sound to add build up or tension to a scene, from a symphany, to a heartbeat.

Highkey Or Lowkey Lighting - This can have great effect from high lighting to show every little micra aspectf of the thriller , or Lowkey lighting to portray a dark or evil scene to add or represent fear.

Killers POV ( Point Of View) - Designed to give the audience an insight into the mind of the killer , making them hang on the edge of their seats.

Flashbacks - These create the illusion we were thewr ein the past to fill in the blank gaps that the begining of the Thriller purposly leaves out.

Pass Time Sequence - This is of great importance , not to hook the audience in ,but to strictly keep the audience interested to avertr any chance of the audience becoming bored or mislead.

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