To capture the spectator, to draw them in and to get them involved and watching. the opening to a thriller film can also set the tone and help identify the genre, it could also be a passage to the ending, could be like a circle linkup.
What Techniques can a director use to create suspense in a film?
loud and dramatic build up of grand music - string instruments, drums ect. cinematography is intimate - focuses on certain bit, low key lighting, jump cuts and cross cutting, false shocks.
Define the term - thriller film?
'Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television that includes numerous and 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'
What films can you think of that would fit into the thriller genre?
there are so many films that i have looked at that will fit into this theme, here are a few examples:
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
IN THE NICK OF TIME
INCEPTION
SINGLE WHITE FEMALES
RANSOM
THE GLASS HOUSE
FLIGHT PLAN
DON'T SAY A WORD
CELLULAR
ALONG CAME A SPIDER
RED EYE
WHAT LIES BENEATH
What are the characteristics or conventions of a thriller film?
narrative,
charactrers
mise en scene
stars- have a massive influence and star appeal is a technique continuously used to maximise film appeal.
What do you think are the differences between a horror and a thriller film?
"Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenre is psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. The brightest examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The cover-up of important information from the viewer and fight/chase scenes are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres, although each subgenre has its own characteristics and methods. Common methods in crime thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings"
"Horror films are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres. Horrors also frequently overlap with the thriller genre.
Horror films deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden worst fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown.
Although a good deal of it is about the supernatural, if some films contain a plot about morbidity, serial killers, a disease/virus outbreak and surrealism, they may be termed "horror." Plots written within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Themes or elements often prevalent in typical horror films include ghosts, torture, gore, werewolves, ancient curses, satanism, demons, vicious animals, vampires, cannibals, haunted houses, zombies and masked serial killers. Conversely, stories of the supernatural are not necessarily always a horror movie as well."
'Top 20 thriller films' what ones have you watched? if it is not many why do you think this is?
- Pulp Fiction
- Inception
- The Dark knight
- Goodfellas
- Fight Club
- Rear Window
- Psyco
- The Usual Suspects
- The silence of the lambs
- se7en
- Memento
- Leon
- North by Northwest
- Double Indemnity
- M
- Taxi Driver
- Vertigo
- Terminator 2
- Elite Squad 2
- Alien
Overall i have watched 9/20 Thriller films from the Top 20 according to IMBD, i think this is because, i tend to watch the more science -fiction thriller films with my dad and brother such as Terminator 2 and Alien, as just forced habit, whereas ordinarily i would not go out to a shop and pick out that particular film to sit and watch. Films like Dark Knight and Inception I watched in the cinema when they were released, as there special effects and no expense spared action appealed to me the most. Se7en is a classic film that I watched at home and was totally Dad inspired as he enjoys the pyschological thriller with a puzzle to solve and chase scene, heavy action.
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