What is a thriller?

A thriller provides a literary feast e.g.  

• legal thriller 
• spy thriller  
• police thriller  
• action-adventure thriller 
• historical thriller 
• medieval thriller 
• political thriller 
• religious thriller 
• high-tech thriller 
• military thriller

MAIN ELEMNTS is to create suspense, tension & excitement.  They also include many Sub genres like mystery, crime, psyhcological, political & paranoid with an atmosphere of menace, violence, crime & murder. All this is to make it seem to the audience that society is dark corrupt and dangerous...



Thriller Characters

•  criminals, stalkers, Assassins, psychotic individuals

Thriller Methods  

• Crime - ransoms, cativities, revenge 
• Mystery - investigations, 'whodunit technique' 
• Psychological- mind games, psychological themes, stalking confinement

Thriller Techniques 

• Use of tracking POV 
• ECUs/CUs Reveals ( track in/zoom in ) 
• Dramatic angles 
• Eerie-tense music 
• Off screen sound 
• Low key lighting 
• Chiaroscuro 
• Strong directional lighting 
• Over exposed or colour manipulation 
• Fast paced editing (especially for chase scenes) 
• Jump cuts 
• Parallel editing 
• Obtrusive editing 
• Silence 
• Exaggerated sound 
• Disorientation of time/space