Conventions of your chosen genre

Conventions of a thriller

There are many different things that make a thriller for example:

 Settings
The setting has to be in a place where people are going to be scared and confused. The place has to be scary but still has to link in with the thriller genre and not make it a horror because they are similar but a horror is more graphical. To make a good thriller you wouldn't have it set on a beach where nothing out of the ordinary is going on you want it to be over the top and where people are going to be confused as what is going to happen next.

However if the setting was on a beach like this which looks very stranded and not like a normal beach it would be quite scary to go there. All so the lighting is very dim and dark which makes it an even more intimidating place to go to.




Titles
The titles in a thriller have to make the audience think it a thriller or something excited and not to be plain. This is because if it is plain the audience may not get the scary or something is going happen the audience then won't take a real interest in it. On the other hand if it was more of a thriller themed title the audience will look at it and then it may set up there opinion on the film right from the start.

 For example the title in this opening sequence is out of the ordinary because the background is very dark which makes it a very intimidating atmosphere and the fact that the letters are not in a straight line makes it more odd and that the film is not going to be something easy to understand.




Withholding information from the audience
Withholding information is a very effective technique this is because it helps to keep the audience interested in what they are watching. This is because if you with hold information the audience are then going to have to watch the majority of the film to find out what it is. You also keep the audience on there toes because they don't know when the information will come out so they will always be very aware.

Convention of character
This is when they show the main character but not all in one single shot they will narrow it down and create more tension for the audience until they will introduce the main character they may show the hands first like they do in the film MEMENTO or some of limb or part of there body. So the audience always want to know who the main character is because the story line is built around them so you will have more idea what the story line will be when you meet the main character of a film that you are watching.