Aims:
- To start exploring ideas for creating our own opening to a thriller film,
- To watch an example of a thriller film,
- To discuss thrillers as a genre of film.
Thriller
'...suspense thrillers focus either on victims of crime or on pursued and isolated criminals...' - Steve Neale.
Factors of thriller films:-
- Thrills,
- Surprises,
- Mystery/enigma,
- Suspense,
- Cliff-hangers,
- Victims/Criminals,
- Police.
How do thrillers typically create a feeling of suspense of tension?
They use music. Sometimes this is off-key, and tends to be slow and eerie, thus adding to the atmosphere.
Ordinary objects, activities and places can become sinister and mean something to the storyline. For example, perhaps a doll plays a significant part throughout the plot.
Anticipation and expectation - the audience is waiting for something to happen, and the tension builds.
Despair and doubt - the audience empathises with the character/s' situation.
Appropriate editing to add tension - faster cuts, faster music, etc.
Accumulation of clues - the audience finds the clues, and then tries to work it all out, as though they are a detective in the film.
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