Thriller:
Example of Thriller films:
- Taken
- Oceans 11
- Reservoir Dogs
- Knowing
- The day after tomorrow
- Identity
- Panic room
- Angels and demons
- Signs
- The others
- The Thirteenth floor
There are also thriller television programmes such as:
- 24
- Lost
- Prison break
- Numb3rs
- Criminal minds
- CSI
Definition of thriller:
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterised by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains.
Conventions:
Conventions of thrillers are:
- Atmosphere that creates menace, violence, crime and murder.
- Shows society as dark, corrupt and dangerous.
- Happy ending where villains are killed.
- Uses cliff-hangers, plot twists and red herrings.
- Can change moods such as adrenaline rush anticipation, anxiety and terror.
- Fight/chase scenes
- Crime thrillers – Ransoms, heists, revenge and kidnappings
- Psychological thrillers – Mind games, stalking, obsession.
Horror:
Examples of horror film:
- Frankenstein
- The devils rejects
- The ring
- The Blair witch project
- Candy man
- Nightmare on elm street
- Halloween
- Friday the 13th
- IT
- Chucky
- Scream
- The
Texas - Dawn of the dead
- Night of the living dead
Within horror there are many different types of subsections such as:
- Slasher
- Teen terror
- Serial killers
- Zombies
- Psychological
- Realistic
- Supernatural
- Infection
Definition of Horror:
Horror fiction is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to scare its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural.
Conventions of Horror:
- Use of eerie music to build up tension usually stringed instruments such as violins. The music peeks at its loudest famous example is the psycho scene in the shower.
- Stereotypically the girls will die first, especially if the girl is blonde.
- Locations are usually very eerie such as abandoned buildings, grave yards, woods (stereotypically dark areas). The reason for this is because it creates vulnerability for the characters involved.
- Special effects for example within a Slasher, the violence such as the killing and blood are shown.
- Within the title usually the colour red is used to signify blood, for example devils rejects
- They usually play on technology or commonly know/ used objects to play on within the plot to create verisimilitude which makes the horror scarier, for example in the ring, the use of a video tape is used. Within the times that the film was created the video was at its peak, it was commonly used and many people would relate to this.
- Often plays on people most common fears, examples of this are clowns and spiders. Both of these horror films have been created for example it and arachnophobia.
- Low key lighting.
Comedies:
Some examples of comedies are:
- Dad’s Army
- Monty python and the holy grail
- Hot tub time machine
- Black adder
- White chicks
- Dumber and Dumber
- Dude where’s my car?
- Yes man
- Borat
- Ali G
- American pie
- Something about Mary
- Not another teen movie
- Clueless
- Two and a half men
- Frasier
- Only fools and horses
- Kings of queens
- Everyone loves Raymond
Definition of comedy:
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending (the black comedy being an exception) – an example of this is Everybody hates Chris.
Conventions of comedies:
· High key lighting
· Visual humour such as in only fools and horses when the chandelier breaks. This is slapstick humour.
· Punch lines.
· Visual gags.
· Make the mood and emotion more positive such as laugher
· Use of non-digetic sound used more such as canned laughter.
I have taken into consideration, within the preliminary task, this research and personal preference in which film genre I indented to produce. The film genre that I indented to produce is Horror.
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