Friday, 13 November 2015

Typical storylines in thriller films

There are many different types of thriller films, for examples, psychological thriller, crime thriller, action thriller, sci-fi thriller and religious thriller, I will be researching into the thriller genre to try and develop our ideas on what film we should do and how it should be done, this will help influence our ideas to be the best they can be.

 Typically, most thriller films have a protagonist and an antagonist (good and evil) against each other to create suspense and tension. The antagonist usually tries to interfere with what the protagonist is doing and the storyline is normally shown from the protagonist’s point of view, it is very unusual for it to be from the antagonist’s point of view. This is because it allows the audience to feel more involved in the film and therefore creating realism, however, sometimes they show clips from the antagonist’s point of view which is to show the audience how they act, and sometimes even allow them to feel empathy for the character. 

 










Thriller films also have quite a lot of action scenes, the characters actions will be seen to be changing a lot, and this encourages the audience to guess what’s going to happen next which creates more suspense because the audience doesn’t know what’s going to happen next. As the whole point of a thriller film is to keep suspense which means keeping the sense of mystery for the audience, so when characters are talking to each other, the audience feels they know what is happening however the full plot of the film isn’t given away so they actually don’t know what is happening. This allows there film to keep its mystery aspect which keeps the suspense and tension there. There is also usually a relationship between the protagonist and antagonist which is the antagonist’s motive to do something (depending on the storyline) to the protagonist. This relationship is normally revealed at the end of the film but sometimes it isn’t which causes the audience to be confused and allows them to imagine how it’ll end.

We are going to combine our research for thriller films and mystery films to ensure we incorporate both genres into our films.

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