Sunday 15 February 2009

Brain storming the thriller genre

In class we talked about what is a thriller and what its aim is to do. We came up that a thriller is a film that makes you feel tension, it brings suspense (an expectation that something is going to happen but you're not sure what and when. WE thought that a thriller tends to have a plot that reflects real life situations and also everyday characters. Whilst watching them you tend to get a feeling of anxiety which is due to the tension built in the film.

Our teacher then asked us to list some programmes or films that we think would be considered as thrillers. I thought the following:
- Arlington Road (film)
-Courage the cowardly dog (programme)
-Jaws (film)
-Thriller (mini-film)

We then realised that there are many different types of thrillers that build tension and make you feel the tension. We came up with some such as:

-Crime Thriller
-Espionage Thriller
-Action Thriller
-Sci-Fi Thriller
-Supernatural Thriller
-Physcological Thriller

After this we then looked at after examples to see what made them a thriller

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