What is a thriller ? Miss G ( Updated )

 What is a thriller ?


The term thriller describes the genre of a film or televison series that uses the themes of kidnap,rape and mystery as its main concepts , the sub genres that are invovled in thriller's are phychological, crime , action and horror . The term thriller , comes from thrills which is condsidered to be fearful excitement created in movies by the idea of scaring thier audience.Voilence is a major theme in thrillers and it contributes in the murders that are always featured in the films.

The sound usally assoicated in thriller films are digectic , non-digectic , on-screen , off-screen , parrell and contrapuntal. The use of these sounds can enchance the effectivess of the film and boast the impact it has on the viewer. The use of digectic sound enables the scene to be more realistic , for example, sounds such as a doorbell or phone call can allow the audiece to assoicate them seveles with the characters sitatuion and craete a relationship. Parell sound reflects the image such as a fight scene , we would expeact to hear heavy breathing or sound effects such as sword clashes as well as gun shots depending on the context of the film.

The use of cinematography within a thriller usally invovles , Camera shots such as close ,long shot ,point of view and etablishing shot , they all enchance the pleasure of the audeince for example a close up allows the audiecne to see the characters facail emotion wheras a long shot alklows the audiecne to see where the character is and the postioning of the character which can add to the effect of the characters profit with the rules of inferioty and superioty. Apoint of view on the other hand allows you to witness the view from the characters eyes which is effective as it gets you more invovled with the story and can allow you to see the narrative from the characters point of view , such as a character wielding a knife , we see his point of view and it adds to our fear.

The location usally assiocated in the genre thriller are excotic , they usally take place in a out of the way niebourhood or unknwon location as the scenes could get unrealistic if they were in a urban locatiom due to the nature of the scenes.

Iconograpgy is used in films to enchance the scene via presenting it more realistic , for example icongraphy includes all the props that are seen in the seen from chairs to mobile phones , however the most common props used in thriller are usally weapons such as kinives or weapons that are excotic such as hammers as they present a more gory feeling and can cause the emotion of fear.




an example of cinematograpgy within films is shown in the clip , the identity uses a range of close ups which represent the characters emotions as the close up allows use to see the character on a mucher closer scale in which we can see his eyes , which may determine how the chracter is feeling. Another generic use of cinematography within a thriller would be a long shot, in whcih would show the stance, postion and coustume of the character , which would also us to see his role , for example, the long shot would show his coustume , and if the coustume was black it would connote the character as bad , furthermore , the postioning of character shown in the long shot could represent the character in different forms , it could show his authority , whether the character is superior or inferior to the other characters or it could demonstrate his socail class.
The sound technique used within the extract is digectic , the sound is coming from the weather as thier is klighting , thunder and storms this sound is effective as it creates fear and excitement due to the sound bieng an use of pathific fallacy as the weather outside can be assiocated with the emotions and feelings within the room in the scene and therefore allows the audiecne to develop thier feeling of fear Iconography is the extract invovles all the clipboards and medical equipment used by the characters this is effective as it allows us to eatblish the postion the characters are in , as we are shown that the characters in suits are evaulating the character using medicals equipments sitution.