Saturday 15 January 2011

Saffrons Media homework

Its difficult to state a definition of a thriller as they have many genres, although there is one convention they all share which is the obvious one, to ''thrill'' the audience.Thrillers can be divided into categories, i.e., action thrillers, psychological thrillers, millitary thrillers, spy
thrillers,
etc.



Action thrillers
They often have elements of mystery thriller and also crime thriller.Generally includes a race against the clock, containing lots of violence, an antagonist, usually contains lots of guns, explosions, large elaborate set for the  action scenes to take place. The narrative relys on action. Examples of this are, ''James bond films'' ''Resivoir dogs'', ''The bourne series''.





Crime thrillers
Generally set in cities or busy local places (crowded areas) to give the impression of a secret world, they use music which create suspense, usually set around FBI or police, with hints of mystery thriller, due to some kind of murder or attack, lots of establishing shots are used to show locations, or to set the scenes in which things are taking place, close ups are regularly used in crime thrillers to show significant detail or expressions. Examples of Crime thrillers are, ''Sin city'', ''The untouchables''  ''Se7en''.






By Saffron

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