Will Thriller be our genre?

 Common camera shots, angles, and movements 

  • High angle 
  • Birds eye view angle 
  • Tilted/Dutch angle 
  • Close up and extreme close up shot 
  • Extreme long shot 
  • Over the shoulder shot 
  • Pan movement 
  • Tracking shot movement 

Common costumes 

A lot of thrillers are related around crime and spies so common costumes would be suits, tailored clothes, dark trench coats, leather jackets, and combat outfits that spies would wear. 


Common lighting 

Dark lighting and low lighting are common to create a darker, ominous feel to the thriller. Placing lighting directly above or below a person can show that as the “bad guy” and pull focus to their role in the movie. Key lighting is also used to show a characters important as well as back lighting to put emphasis on a character. 


Common acting 

Thrillers deal with how the mind perceives a suspenseful situation. Acting to come off as a serious, dangerous, and powerful character is used as well as crying, screaming, and fear to show the severity of the situation the characters are in. Psychological thrillers can have a range of messed up characters resulting in more emotionally explosive, sexual, and fearful acting emotions. 


Common makeup 

Makeup can be used to display thrillers taking place in different time frames. Some take place in older days resulting in women wearing older makeup styles while some taking place in the present can have very glamorous, expensive makeup styles. SFX makeup is also commonly used to show violent scenes in thrillers where a character is covered in blood, has been shot, or is dead and mutilated. 


Common props 

Guns, briefcases, and ID badges are all commonly used in the crime/spy thriller trope where as in the move horror/psychological side of thriller more axes, knifes, and hospital garments are common. 


Common settings 

City suburbs, dark forests, mansions, office spaces, and ordinary house spaces are all cmmon places for thrillers to take place.  

 

Common editing  

Fast cutting and cutaways are used to create tension and show the action of a thriller. Flashbacks and montage are common events to happen in a thriller to establish happier times in the past or unveil a secrete. Slow motion is also used to keeps audiences on their toes whether is be action happening or a character simply lifting their head. 


Common Sound 

Diegetic sounds commonly made in thriller movies are screaming, loud footsteps, crying, pounding on door, gunshots, and whispering. Non-diegetic sound commonly added in are high pitched strings, low toned horns, slow staccato piano music, and fast paced percussion.  


Examples 

Pale Blue Eye (2022) 

X (2022) 

Luckiest Girl Alive (2022) 


Positive element 

The mystery, suspense, and action of a good thriller keeps you on your toes. I personally like the morbid and creepy undertones that some of them have. My aunt used to show me older thrillers about crime and the mafia that I really liked because of the topic it surrounds. 


Negative elements 

A lot of thrillers can be about rich people stealing money about rich people and it can get pretty boring. All they do is talk about the economy and Wall Street and that happens enough in the regular day to day. 

 






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