Genre Research: Thriller

On our last blog, which was about our PowerPoint research on the drama genre. We know have decided on two other genres to write about and do some research on that too. We chose thriller and horror. We chose them because they both have similar movies made for the genre. Our main one will be thriller since our movie will be based on the thriller genre. Camera Angles used in thrillers are high angles, close up shots, tilted angles, and long shots. Some camera movements are tracking, panning, zoom, and dolly. Some shots are over the shoulder shot, point of view shot, hand held shot, and wide shot. Some costumes for thrillers are normal clothing type,such as normal daily outfits you would wear to school, to work, anything of that type. For the lighting, since most thriller and horror movies are more dark and have the scary and suspenseful affect on its audience the lighting that is  most commonly used is low-key lighting. Other common ones are back lighting, filler light, under lighting, and high-key lighting. For make-up and hair, most thrillers may be seen as normal and natural makeup but some thrillers may use special affects makeup for their film. Now for our props, many thriller films have the main plot be death. which would lead to them using weapons and such things as their props. The props may vary from a computer to a gun or a blanket to a plate. It all varies from what your plot is. Many props have to fit their antagonist personality. If the they are more violent they would use something bigger and stronger, if they are less violent they might use something small. Lastly for our setting, the thriller genre most commonly uses abandoned houses, forests, dark alleys, empty streets, and any dark area outside to set the mood for their setting. Some common editing in thriller movies are jump cuts, titles, elliptical editing, graphic math and parallel editing. Some thriller film examples would be Jaws, Get out, IT, Us, The Joker and many other films in that genre. Thriller movies use music, sound affects, dialogue and silence. They all combine to give that suspenseful vibe to the movie. Some elements that appealed to me were that the protagonist and antagonist battle at some point of the film, and that at one point a character will be dragged into a very dangerous situation that they had no clue was coming. Some elements i didn't like were that sometimes the main characters always die.