Thriller Specifications

My Thrillers Specifications

In my opinion, i believe that there are certain rules to abide by whilst producing and writing your own thriller, to ensure that it has the most positive, memorable and exciting effect on the audience as humanly possible. By deliberating up on, and utilising thrillers forms and conventions intelligently it can prove to be a wonderful piece of cinematography once the desired story has been filmed and edited.

• Avoiding a cliche plot line, can be the difference between a good thriller and a poor thriller. After viewing many other AS pieces, we discovered a recurring theme of basic killer, stalks and kills, with barely any motivation other than a random killing. So an interesting and ingenious plot can  entice an audience and ensure viewer involvement.

• Establishing a character, is crucial. The audience must be able to relate to  character, so that when or if something happens to them, they can empathise and also sympathise with that character. Every character should have interesting and thought provoking attributes.

• Fast editing, or editing to fit the mood of the piece should be employed, this can be interesting when 2 different plots can come together, effectively increasing the pace of a film. Until a longed for climax.

• Setting the scenes in places that are relatively familiar to the viewer is an affective way of un-nerving an audience, as it establishes the idea that no where is safe. Just like in Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ which gained global acclaim for the shower murder scene.

• Shrouding the identity of the killer is another intelligent way to gather suspense, seeing as the murderer could be anyone we meet. You could do this by either covering the face, or even utilising camera shots to disguise them, typically; over the shoulder shots, point of view shots.

• Finally, sounds should be used intellectually, to provoke a certain mood or emotion from the audience. Film makers have done this for years, and it has proven very successful. This is what a key factor i would like to include in my final thriller opening.