Research - conventions of a thriller

The 4 main conventions of a thriller is Teasers, special effects, sound and titles

Teasers

Teasers are most at the start of a thriller film for example in the thriller se7en, it gives the audience  a clue of what the story is about.By doing this it hooks the audience towards the film more and makes them wanna watch more of the film. 

Editing

Editing makes the audience a little shock and gives more tension in the thriller. In most thrillers, they put in special effects to make the thriller more interesting and intense. Also by doing this, this makes the audience understand if the thriller would have alot of tension in it or not. Another reason why editing is very important is that it makes the audience feel really scared which is what the producers are targeting.

Sound

In most thrillers the sound usually builds up tension as you watch the opening. But some thrillers, it goes straight to a really scary sound. This helps the audience know what the atmosphere of the thriller is and how it is going to be.

Titles

The titles are always in the opening of a thriller so it could represent the directors and cast that are in the film. Also at the very start of the film, there is always a producer's identification so it makes the audience know who made the film and show to the audience's that they made the film. This is done so that they could be more successful and have more audience's watching their films.

This image is from the film SE7EN, this gives us teasers as we have no idea what the code means or if it would be linked to the movie.

In this movie (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) opening, there is non-diegetic sound which has a very high pace beat. By doing this, it makes the audience understand which type of genre it is and if the film would be scary or not. Also, in this opening there are also teasers, these are used to give a hint to the audience what the movie is about even further. The teaser that they show is aggressiveness and it seems like there is ink stuck onto somebody and they are trying to get out of it. Another Convention that this opening have is editing, editing is used in this opening to give the audience a better effect and to entertain them more. For example all the ink that is splashing around. This helps the audience want to watch more of the film. Finally the last convention that this opening have are titles. At the start of the opening we see Columbia pictures and Metro-GoldWYN-Mayer pictures, the company are always at the start to show that they are at the top and that they have made this movie. The titles also represents the directors which comes up during the whole of the opening.