Thriller Conventions

Thriller Conventions

A thriller is not meant to scare an audience, unlike a horror, it is meant to keep the audience on edge and can make the audience relate to the topic and make them think how the event in the thriller could happen to them. The story usually shows a chain of bad events the continue to build tension and suspense for the climax usually at the end of the story which. Suspense often arises when the main character is put in a mysterious, threatening situation. Plots in the thriller often involve the characters coming into conflict with each other which will create suspense and tension.

The conventions of a thriller will usually involve:
- Low key lighting
-Quick cuts
-Shadows
-Tension music
-Changes in the angle of shots
-Digetic sounds (such as breathing sounds)
-Black and White shots
-Montage of shots
-Protagonist is in the mercy of the Antagonist