Define what a thriller is?

A thriller is a genre that grabs and keeps the attention for the audience and is able to create mystery and enigmas throughout. Although some type they can be gory and gruesome all through them are able to build suspense and tension throughout to get the viewer’s heart racing. However there are different types of thrillers which are determined through the variety of sub genres.

Some of which are: crime, psychological, action, spy, horror, legal, medial, supernatural, religious and disaster thrillers. Even though some genres can link as they have similar features such as crime and legal are similar as they both involve legal issues, police and etc. however other genres have large difference between them however they are linked and used together in a thriller as some religious and disaster are put together; religious is where there is a significant relation to each like frequent religious symbols whereas disaster is normally in link with natural disasters that occur like the impossible and San Andrea’s which are based on true events or theory’s however they can be put together on rare occasions.

For my thriller we choose two sub-genre as it to be crime and psychological, it is crime based as in the as it is based around a police officer who is having nightmares of his unsolved cases. Therefore it is also psychological because it plays with the audiences minds with the flash forwards and flash backs in the detective/protagonist dreams. We chose these sub-genres because we wanted to take inspiration from Se7en which had different psychological aspects as the way that they were presented in the opening was clear and added to the stereotypical scary aspect. Also crime as it is a popular sub-genre with thrillers as the element of looking for someone and seeing a murder can appeal to people as it can be engaging as it keeps them wanting to know what happens.

For the thriller the audience will expect the styles and conventions from the sub-genres; crime and psychological. As a crime aspect the audience will expect of mystery and enigma as they will expect murder and some form of crime so there would be questions made like who is the murderer and so on. More over the audience will expect murder weapons guns and police equipment, so to the fact that the film is based on crime events. However for the psychological sub-genre the audience will expect chaos and confusion from this type of sub-genre as well as an unstable character involved in the thriller and a stereotypical scared female. For this there is a large time element involved as there is more pressure, furthermore they will expect it to be set in a rural deserted area so that the character is isolated.

For the thriller from the expectations we used the murder weapons as it fits in well with the plot wit this instead of using one we decided to use more than one to create a sense of confusion and mystery, we had a rope as a murder weapon of the young innocent, stereotypical woman and placed her in a deserted area so that she was isolated so that we could create a sense of no escape to challenge the crime and psychological expectations. To develop on this we also had a gun on the bed side table of the sleeping police investigator this created mystery and enigma to why they have it on the bed side table who are they.  Although the crime sub-genre normally has their murders and setting in an urban area to challenge it we linked in the psychological element by having the victim in a rural derelict area. For the thriller element we ensured there was a lot of chaos and confusion so that enigmas and mystery can be clearly created.