Codes and Conventions of a thriller.

Codes And Conventions

Of The Thriller Genre

A thriller film mainly consits of a battle between the Protagonist(The good guy) and the Antagonist(The bad guy). The aim of the Protagonist is to restore justice, while the Antagonist seeks to destroy it.

      Conventions of a thriller are;

• Low key lighting
• Quick cuts
• Shadows
• Tension Music
• Digetic sound of breathing
• Black and white shots
• Montage of shots
• Protagonist is in the mercy of the Antagonist

        The Antagonist is usually a brave and strong male who seeks out to restore the equlilibrium,

 the Protagonist will usually have a secret identity that the audience will discover the film goes on.        

      The storyline is actually quite realistic, so the audience will thinks it could happen to them, which makes them feel vunerable.

    

  Editing of a thriller

     The director will include quite a lot jump cuts because there will be a lot of things happening that the audience will not be aware of, but we need these for the film to make sense. In our film we will have jump cuts because if we want to see what the main character is looking at, e.g shot of my face then shot of something that i'm looking at.

  Music in a thriller

        Music is an important part to any film, to understand the mood of a particular character in the film or just to add suspense to a particular scene.