Conventions of thriller movies

-Tense music; this builds suspense in the movie allowing the audience to want to know more

- A variety of camera angles; this allows the audience to see ‘all different sides’ to the characters and the plot of the movie.

- Quick editing cuts (constant scene changes); this builds suspense but also allows the viewer to feel more involved (uses and gratifications theory) in that they need to figure out what is going on, personally.

- Unknown areas i.e. Shadowing, mirroring/reflecting; allowing the audience to question what is going on and figure out for themselves. This links to the uses and gratifications theory in that the audience would feel a sense of self accomplishment.

- Unknown characters such as the victim or the killer; this keeps the audience questioning their first perception of the movie as a lot of what the assume is unknown until the conclusion to the film.

- Old fashioned (set in a time before it was developed) or quiet areas; the old fashioned areas allow the audience to relate to the movie in that pathetic fallacy is used and the audience already know the parts of the film which the characters are perceiving to you.

- Claustrophobic spaces; this shows a sense of entrapment and that there is a task in hand.

- Dominant male & vulnerable females; this allows the sense of ‘power’ to be fully in the hand of the male and that men can relate to the characters as can females.

All of these factors create a typical mood to a thriller movie. This allows the audience to feel a sense of unawareness as to what is actually going on and feel slightly 'on edge' about the plot of the film. I hope to play this into my movie and make the audience feel the same way that they do with mainstream thriller movies. This will show a sense of professionalism and quality to my movie.