The thriller genre is a very wide spaced and can combine with others genres. The Genre mainly involves a sense of mystery, suspense and tensions which are big parts of a thriller. It involves a high level of anticipation, uncertainty, anxiety, nerve-wracking tension and gives a sudden rush of emotions.
Thriller’s are fiction based including fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains.
The thriller genre can include the following sub-genres, which may include elements of other genres:
· Action thriller
· Conspiracy thriller
· Crime thriller
· Disaster thriller
· Drama thriller
· Eco-thriller
· Horror thriller
· Medical thriller
· Psychological thriller
· Spy thriller
· Supernatural thriller
· Techno-Thriller
The key elements which a thriller will include are-
· Chase scenes
· Psychological dimension – unknown
· Close up- human unknown
· Normalcy vs unexpected
· Darker side of life
· Injury/death
· Nightmare, disturbing
· Flashbacks (time)
· Credibility/ believability
· Distortion of reality
· Power
Camera shots
To add intensity close ups are used to give a dramatic meaning the sudden cuts of close ups will give the audience a sudden surprise.
Build tension into a scene by using contrasting situations. Use two unrelated things happening at once. The audience should be focused on the momentum of one, and be interrupted by the other. To add suspense showing the audience what the characters don’t see and constant reminders of this looming danger will build suspense.
Misen scene elements
Thrillers often take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas.
The heroes in most thrillers are frequently "hard men" accustomed to danger.
Thrillers also occur on a much larger scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments. Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard plot elements. While a mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the lives of others. If it 'thrills' then it is a thriller
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