Thriller Conventions

To replicate the opening two minutes of a thriller, I will have to have knowlege of the codes and conventions of the thriller genre.

List of conventions for Thrillers:

- The takes are either very short to thrill the audience with the pace and excitement, or very long to build the suspense and expectation.

- They often include villains and victims. Villains are often the most important, however, as they push the plot forward. The victims are often of minor significance, there existence based only around there death within the film.

- The brutality of the events is often implied through the use of quick, fast paced cuts.

- The narrative is often mysterious, with varying twists and turns in the plot that keeps the audience guessing until the very end of the film.

- The narrative is often based around a crime of some sort, such as 'Psycho' (1960).

- The location or content of the scene can be recognisable to audience, but is then often turned on its head in a brutal fashion to unsettle the audience.