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Zeel Sanatkumar Genre: Crime Thriller A thriller is a genre that uses suspense ,tension and excitement as the main elements.they are mostly characterized as an atmosphere of menace, violence, crime and murder by showing society as dark, corrupt and dangerous. Thrillers significantly show literary devices such as plot twists and cliffhangers. They also moods such as a high level of anticipation and adrenaline.some examples of thriller movies are : Gone Girl ,Inception and Shutter Island. The distorted picture of crime painted by the news media reflects the fact that news is a social construction. Here is a mood board of crime and thriller genres: Analysis of Sin City-Robert Rodriguez (2005) Technique Effect Camera Over the shoulder POV Long shot Close up shot Canted Angle Makes you feel as if you are part of the action that is going on. POV shot puts you in perspective of the character and what they're senses may be relaying to

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Zeel Sanatkumar

Genre: Crime Thriller

A thriller is a genre that uses suspense ,tension and excitement as the main elements.they are mostly characterized as an atmosphere of menace, violence, crime and murder by showing society as dark, corrupt and dangerous. Thrillers significantly show literary devices such as plot twists and cliffhangers. They also moods such as a high level of anticipation and adrenaline.some examples of thriller movies are : Gone Girl ,Inception and Shutter Island. The distorted picture of crime painted by the news media reflects the fact that news is a social construction.

Here is a mood board of crime and thriller genres:

Analysis of Sin City-Robert Rodriguez (2005)

Technique Effect

Camera Over the shoulder

POV

Long shot

Close up shot

Canted Angle

Makes you feel as if you are part of the action that is going on. POV shot puts you in perspective of the character and what they're senses may be relaying to them. Close up shot shows us the initial facial features and the emotions behind the characters. Thee canted angle usually shows suspension and confusion.Long shots show us the character and the

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location

Editing Zoom in and Zoom Out

Straight cuts and long shots

Zooming in and Out create an almost ambient effect whereby it causes confusion. Straight cuts and long cuts cause suspension and build up tension.

Sound Asynchronous Voice Over

Ambient sound such as car horns Non Diegetic (realism)

Gunshot

Slow deep toned voice creates pace and the ambient sounds increase in verisimilitude realism. The sounds of gunshots create an almost frightening and unexpected.

MECS Black white red colours in most costumes

Dimly lit

Stormy weather

Location: roof of a tall building

The black colour is mainly used for the protagonist as well as to create a dark eerie effect. Overall, the colour black also has further associations with evil and death- which link to red which is often used for blood.

The audience are likely to expect certain film conventions in order to be identified as thriller; however, if the film does not meet the conventions of a thriller the audiences expectations may not be met. Furthermore, the usual expectations of a thriller include:

-Suspense

-Face paced

-Antagonist Vs Protagonist

-Investigations

-Enigma

-Storyline that requires thinking

-Extraordinary events.

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Theorists:

Vladamir Propp

RUSSIAN CRITIC, THAT DEVELOPED A NARRATIVE THEORY. HE ANALYSED OVER 100 RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES OF THE 1920'S. HE CONCLUDED THAT CHARACTER ROLES INCLUDE; HERO SEEKING SOMETHING, THE VILLAIN WHO OPPOSES THE HERO.

Tzvetan Torodov

BULGARIAN LITERARY THEORIST. SUGGESTS MOST NARRATIVES FOLLOW EQUILIBRIUM IN WHICH THE 'NORMAL LIFE' OF THE PROTAGONIST IS DISRUPTED IN WHICH THEY HAVE TO FIGHT AGAINST THE ANTAGONIST. THIS IS A NARRATIVE CONVENTION WE WILL DEFINITELY FOLLOW.

Daniel Chandler

PROTAGONISTS WILL OFTEN SEEK REFUGE IN ISOLATED LOCATIONS- FOR EXAMPLE THE SHINING WITH JACK NICHOLSON AND THE HOTEL. THIS HELPS TO CREATE THE TENSION AND MAKE IT SEEM AS IF THEY ARE TRAPPED AND LONELY.

For example, the equilibrium in The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce Wayne is hiding and has not been Batman for the last 8 years because of the incident with the Joker in which he took the blame and Batman is consequently seen as a vigilante. The disruption of the equilibrium comes from the appearance of the mysterious and Bane adversary Bane. Bruce Wayne consequently recognises the disruption and decides to become Batman once again. In this effort he loses the fight and his back is broken.He then begins his campaign of attempting to repair the damage. He does defeat Bane and Talia Al Ghul, but has to get rid of the nuclear bomb. In doing so, he fakes his own death and a new equilibrium begins.

Evolution of the thriller genre

From a personal perspective there has been a rather drastic evolution of the crime-thriller genre compared to films that were released in the 50’s and 60’s for example- Alfred Hitchcock's’ classic Psycho and Rear Window. There has been an increase in the number of a hybrid genre of horror however, there is often a negative stigma surrounded around films which are considered as “cheap thrills”. From time to time, the media industry is blessed with certain gems such as Gone Girl. New technology has seemed to take away from these films with CGI and visual effects now being preferred over practical sets and the use of little visual effects. The audience demographic has also seemed to dramatically changed with

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teenagers often now being the target audience for the majority of thriller/horror hybrids like Paranormal Activity.