Monday 12 January 2009

Genre

Genres are vague categories with no fixed boundaries, they are formed by sets of conventions, and many work across into multiple genres by a way of recombining these conventions. Our genre for our film is horror/psychological thriller which is going to contain a mix of fear and excitement. It has trails from the suspense genre and often from the action, adventure and mystery genres. But the level of terror makes it borderline horror fiction as well.
In a typical thriller/horror you will find:
  • Characters such as - Murders, victims, psychos, sociopaths (etc)- these are the kind of sterotypical roles that are played in thriller movies.

A thriller genre can include the following sub-genres, which may include elements of other genres:

  1. Action thriller
  2. Crime thriller
  3. Disaster thriller
  4. Drama thriller
  5. Horror thriller
  6. Psychological thriller
  7. Spy thriller
  8. Supernatural thriller
  9. Techno thriller
  10. Science fistion thrilller

Most thrillers are formed in some combination of the above, with horror, conspiracy, and psychological tricks used most commonly to heighten tension.

How will we do something to keep it fresh?

We will together work productively to try and make our sequence unique. In order for us to make it unique and different to other films, we will add in our original touch by not revealing who the culprit is and we will keep it a sudden cliffhanger, we will make sure the audience are glued to their seats.

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