Genre Research: Thriller





The genre thriller is not a sophisticated genre, it consists of many
of the same elements as horror but the overall message across the
board is different. While the horror genre is meant to scare you and
scare you frighten; thrillers are not of the same descent. Thrillers
are meant to give you a-lot of twists and turns and plot changes
within a  film. The most common camera shots and movements within are
usually, high angels, low angels, eye level, point of view shots, and
tracking shots. These allow for the overall feel of the movie to come
into play and to really be established throughout the movie. As for
movements, close ups, establishing shot, trunk shots, pan etc. are
frequently used in this genre. More than likely if you are watching a
thriller based movie, there is a lot of running and a lot of
movements, and these key movement shots are key for the different
films to be not only recorded by properly understood and felt from an
audience standpoint. Additionally, for sound in a lot of thriller
based movies, there is usually a lot of dialogues, ambient sounds,
diegetic, non-diegetic, and sound motifs. More predominantly in the
US, there are a lot of ambient sounds and dietetic sounds that really
add and create the overall feel that this movie gives the audience
watching it. The lighting in thrillers typically depends on the type
of movie, going back towards the movie US, the movie was predominantly
in a dark setting. The lighting does truly contribute to the overall
concept of the movie, in the feeling it develops and creates. For
costumes, it really depends on the overall topic of the movie, for the
movie US, the majority of the characters were in red suits, the
"killers" in the movie. This also does go hand-in-hand with the
acting, props, make-up, and setting, which also goes hand in hand with
the overall meaning of the movie that is occurring. In conclusion, I
really like how interactive thriller movies can be. The way you take a
thriller movie can be in several different ways, additionally I like
how all thriller movies are not always typically scary, as for horror
movies which are predominantly focused on scaring the audience.


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