Genre Reseaech: Thriller


 Common Camera angles: 

High Angle/Bird’s eye view: 

This type of angle is typically used to convey weakness or show one has power over someone else. 

Close up shot: 

Typically used to exaggerate to show the severity of an event someone is witnessing. 

Tracking or panning: 

These shots are used to further absorb the audience into the world and help convey the sense of urgency and thrill. 

Reverse:

Often this shot is used to showcase something that already happened in past, usually to highlight consequences. 

Tilted Angle: 

Another thing used to further suck the reader into the world of the movie. It can help make scenes more brutal and or impactful by showing the perspective of the victim. 

Extreme long shots or Long shots: 

Used to showcase the atmosphere or area in the movie. 

Low Angle shots:

Often used to showcase the strength of a villain and to make the audience feel weak. 

Hand-Held Camera shots:

This kind of shot shows a sense of realism to the audince to further immerse them in the film. 

Point of View shot: 

Usually, helps raise the tension and make the audience feel attached to the character that they are seeing the world through

Zoom shot:

Zooms can help create suspense and fear, especially in a horror scenario. 

Over the shoulder shots:

It is used to help build suspense and tension/. 

Common Mis-en scene: 

Lighting and Colors: 

  • Different levels of lighting are used to convey different feelings. It can help build a mysterious atmosphere. 

  • Low-level lighting creates shadows which can raise tension for the audience. 

  • Black and white lighting can greatly help increase the effect of shadows on the audience. 

Sound: 

  • Quiet and eerie music creates a more dire situation. 

  • Music that keeps the audience invested 

  • Helps grow tension and panic 

Costumes and Makeup: 

  • Natural clothing costumes make characters easier to sympathize with and relate to 

  • No makeup makes characters appear more real to the audience

  • Things like smudged eye shadow can be used to show crying or fear 

Settings and Props:

  • Common areas include haunted houses and or forests 

  • Objects can help one push the narrative of the film but also vary depending on the movie. 

  • Often times guns are used in action sequences

  • Space often is used to build tension and show the direness of a situation

Common editing: 

  • Title: They often are used to showcase different aspects of the film and create a mood with the audience. 

  • Jump cuts are often used to help stir tension and progress scenes onward without dragging out too much. 

Common sound: 

  • Diegetic sound or actual sounds are used to show what is occurring in the film itself. 

  • Non-diegetic sounds are used to help build tension and make the audience feel something. 

  • Stings are jumpy scary sounds that are used to shock the audience 


Example films in your genre: 

The guilty (2021), The father (2020), The Power of The Dog (2021)

Elements I would like, and what I would use:

I am a big fan of the general idea of thriller films. They give the audience a thrill, make them feel alive. I like the feeling the movies give me and the kind of atmosphere they create.  We will definitely be using aspects like that from the thriller genre. 

Elements I don’t like, and I wouldn’t use: 

Some elements I am not a fan of overall or not use mainly boil down to the common connection to horror movies that thrillers have. We are not planning to make a horror movie, we are planning more of an action-type thriller. Therefore certain aspects of thrillers we will not use in our movie. For example, we are not planning on using any handheld camera shots in our film.

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