Genre Research - Thriller

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Common Camera Angles, Movements, and Shots in thriller:

  • High-angled and low-angled shots
  • Canted angle
  • Zooms
  • Tracking shots
  • Tilts
  • Close up
  • Extreme close-up
  • Bird’s eye view


Common Sound in thriller:

  • Diegetic noise of screaming sound
  • Non-diegetic noise of instrumental music
  • Sound bridges


Common Mis-En-Scene in thriller:

Costumes:  

  • Average clothing, the basics of everyday wear
  • In darker more unwelcoming colors or in lighter colors to portray innocence

Lighting: 

  • Dark or dim lighting to create shadows
  • Flickering lights

Acting: 

  • Aggressiveness 
  • A large amount of confused or frightened acting  

Make-up:  

  • The bare minimum usually light make-up 
  • Smeared colored make-up (rough look)  
  • Make-up that creates the illusion of an injury (fake blood) 

Props:  

  • Fake weapons  
  • Sunglasses 
  • Paper notes  

Setting:  

  • Someplace warm and familiar- a home or local café 
  • Isolated locations like the woods or the back of a building.  


Common Editing in thriller:

  • Jump cuts 
  • Shot reverse shot  
  • Eye-line Match  


Examples of thriller films include: 

  • The Weekend Away (2022) Kim Farrant 
  • Bullet Train (2022)  David Leitch 
  • Luckiest Girl Alive (2022) Mike Barker 


What elements of thriller do you like? 

We like the variety of camera shots and angles, such as the candid angle, which is unique and rarely seen. Also, we'd like to use jump-cut editing to create a fast or slow-paced film. We also like the shrieking sound effect and would incorporate it into our film. 


What elements of thriller do not appeal to you? 

They use props such as fake weapons that we would avoid. The use of fictitious weapons does not appeal to us and appears to be rather inappropriate. In addition, we do not want to include fake blood makeup. It's too gory for us. 

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