Light and Shadow
- Shadows and low light create tension and eeriness, sometimes showing the darkness within a character and suspense for the audience ( for example is when a character is in a forest and gets scared and runs through the forest and is dark and that character see lots of shadows).
- Darkness is used to give a sense of claustrophobia. For example a panic room.
Mise-en-scene
- The setting and the objects/props in it are used to help give insight into the film’s plot, for example a rose symbolise love.
- It also could be the scenery for example a room in a house.
- As a convention of the thriller genre, mirrors are used as a reflection of the soul and inner self, sometimes representing the darkness within a character (an example would be ‘Mirrors’ by Alexandré Aja).
- Stairways and narrow corridors create a claustrophobic atmosphere for the audience and character.
Sound
- Sound and music is used to create an atmosphere of tension and suspense, for example in Jaw, the introduction starts to give the audience a thrill in the beginning of the move.
- Colours play an important role in the thriller genre. The contrast between black and white is often used to represent good and evil, white represents innocence and purity and black represents corruption and evil (an example would be ‘Psycho’ by Alfred Hitchcock would be when the woman called Marion Crane was wearing white clothes but then when she took the money she wore dark clothes which shows that her inocencse has).
Camera Shots and Angles
- Quick camera shots gives the effect of tension and suspense
- Camera shots (for example a point of view, a close-up, etc.) subtly give insight into the plot and situation of the story line.
- Camera angles (for example a high or low angle, or side to side movement) which give subtle about the characters and their situation.
Editing
- Fast pace editing and quick shots create a disorienting effect, often used in important scenes.
- Flashbacks are a convention of the thriller genre, they give insight into the past and create a sense of distorted time (‘Memento’ by Christopher Nolan is an example).
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In the film that my group and I thought of was to use some of the code and conventions for are thriller move. The one that we were thinking of using are ...
-Mise-en-scene :-
The setting and the objects/props in it are used to help give insight into the film’s plot, for example a rose symbolise love. Also the place where we would be filming which would be in a classroom.
-Sound :-
The sonds that we thought of using are foot steps and the sounds of someone breathing heavly.
-Camera Shots and Angles:-
We though about taking different angle shots throughout the filmg so that when it comes to editing we can mach different shots togeter to give this move a 'Thriller Move' effect.
