Codes and Conventions of Thriller

The codes and conventions of a thriller is that they always use suspense and tension to draw the viewer into the film, they do this through the music and the non digetic sounds they also use slow camera angles to show tension between the to characters. They piece the storyline like a jigsaw so you know bits and pieces so you don’t know why something is happening but in the end it makes sense. A Thriller film always begins with cutting into the storyline and the beginning is told through back tracking so you know what happened from the start. The lighting is brighter than a horror films and has less gore. Thrillers use the unknown e.g. you may hear the sounds and the see the body after your mind ma presume that the person has been attack or is dead. Thrillers play on that thought an may let a character look at the body look away and there is no body and the body may surprise the person from behind, this makes the viewer jump. The use of shadows in a film especially in fight scenes to hide others or the person they are frightening, shadows are also used to represent danger because thrillers are lighter than horrors when you see the lighting change from light to dark you know there is danger. Thriller are usually set inner city or foreign places if it is a SC-fi thriller another planet but the verisimilitude helps keep it really so the audience still feel part of the movie.