What Is A Thriller Genre? As Media Ms Begum

What are Genres?

What a genre is where a film fall into, as that there are a range of different types of genre starting from action, comedy, thriller, horror, drama and sci-fi, what the genres do is that they will set a target audience for the film/storyline that the audience would watch. In all genres they all have a typical thing that the genre does for example romance always has two people that fall in love, or relationships and they are very dramatic, Action has lots of guns and explosions where they keep the film/storyline flowing with excitement of what could happen, a thriller is a genre where it is scary and unpredictable what could happen. 

Thriller Genre…

In the thriller storylines the narrative would have a mission or mystery or a psychological, also there are always antagonist and protagonist as mention before thrillers are unpredictable, for example in thrillers when you would be watching the film the characters in the film would do something unusual which might make the audience think that they are the protagonist when this character really might not, which is where to get the people wanting to know more from the film and making them wondering what is going to happen next, also what this does is make the audience become full of excitement making them wanting more.

Also another thing that thriller does to the audience is that it builds tension, and what this does is allow the audience to have mixed emotions as they are watching such as, being worried for the character and being uncomfortable, also another great thing about thrillers is that it builds up the tension which make the audience have a greater reaction from the sound of the music and the actors, for example scream hearing a window slam or glass breaks or something falls down. In thrillers there are certain things that are always in thriller films/storylines, which is iconography such as a knife missing or a knife with blood left in an odd place, also the lighting changed at specific parts of thriller film showing, the change of emotion, body language, lighting given from the people which would make the audience feel sympathetic.

Also the most common themes that shown in the thriller movies is ransoms, revenge, death, kidnapping and obsession and what this does to the audience is to know what the thriller storyline could be and to know what they would be watching. Furthermore the common conventions of thrillers are mirrors, low key lighting, shadows, obtrusive editing, quick cuts, changes in camera angle, tension music, stairs and also flashbacks in the thriller movies.

Example of Thrillers

       

Examples Of Sub-Genre Of Thriller

What a thriller sub Genre is a stem from the mainstream genre, sub-genres of the thriller of more detail of the thriller type film should be laid in, also what this does is specifically tell you what type of thriller it is, for example; psychological thrillers or action thrillers what this does for the industry is important, because what the audience would know what the film would specifically be because of the genre of the film the audience realize that the genres is more that categorization.

Audience Response

What the main elements of the thriller is excitement, tension and suspense. What this response the audience that is watching would react to certain parts of the thriller movie because of the scenes that happens for example the protagonist is being chased by the antagonist trying to kill the protagonist what this does to the audience is that they want to see what happens, and if the protagonist gets killed in a gory way to some of the audience they would cover their eyes or scream or grab something and hold it tight. Also with the character running away or something popping up out of know where, the audience would have a scare from that but they would also stay engaged with the film as they would be interested because they are waiting/wondering what is going to happen next while trying to stay with the story line as much as they can.  

Conclusion

With my conclusion is that thrillers are great if you liked to be thrilled, also with the narrative of the film keeps you on your seat (interested in the film) and keeps making you want more from the film, what this does to the audience is allow them to enjoy the film, as the audience will enjoy the film then they would come and watch more of the thriller type genres, since the audience has enjoyed the film. And this is what makes the audience like the thriller genre/sub-genre.


By Darhyl Matias