Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Thriller
- Conventions of a Thriller
- low key lighting
- quick cuts
- shadows
- tension music
- changes in the angle of shots
- diegetic sound of breathing
- black and white shots
- protagonist in the mercy of antagonist
- Iconography
- shadows and silhouettes
- weapons
- drugs
- dark urban setting
- cars
- Examples of Thrillers
- Strangers on a Train - 1951
- Rear Window - 1954
- Vertigo - 1958
- Psycho - 1960
- The Silence of the Lambs -1991
- Seven - 1995
- Shutter Island - 2010
- Black Swan - 2010
- I Saw the Devil - 2010
- Prisoners - 2013
- Gone Girl - 2014
- Mise-en-scene
- low-key lighting
- costume
- antagonist in dark clothes
- protagonist in light or normal clothes
- film stoke
- black and white, colour
- fine grain, grainy
- Editing of a Thriller
- jump cuts
- cross cutting
- continuity
- What do I think when I hear the word "thriller"?
- suspense and excitement
- busy streets/urban/suburban
- narrative revolves around investigation of an enigma
- hero is often an outsider
- violence
- rational rather than supernatural explanation
- centres on injustice in society
- hero and villain often share characteristics