Mystery Thriller - Typical storylines

Mystery Thriller is the subgenre we have decided for our film, these types of films are often thrilling, exciting and gives the element of mystery in the film to encourage the audience to think about what’s happening and figure it out.

A typical storyline for mystery films is that there is a problem, crime or something that is unresolved, the whole point of the film is to discover what has happened. The plot usually centres on the main person who is trying to figure out what is happening and that is normally the protagonist. This is usually done by the protagonist piecing together clues that they find which leads them to the truth and tracking down the person responsible.

We have combined this typical storyline with a typical thriller storyline which has made our genre a mystery-thriller. A Mystery-Thriller film is usually based on a mystery that the aim is to solve it by following clues (much like a mystery storyline), it then has many thrilling moments in it. There will be a protagonist in the film and antagonist in the film, however, in some thrillers this isn't always the case. In thriller mysteries there will also be action scenes which grips the audience into the scene, this combination makes a film both thrilling and interesting to watch, constantly drawing the audience in. Typically, the antagonist creates problems for the protagonist which the protagonist will then have to solve or defeat the antagonist with the use of action scenes.