Monday 10 January 2011

Conventions of a Thriller

- Creates tension for the audience
- Good and bad characters binary opposites
- Non linear narrative
- A scene that causes questions for the audience that wont be told until the end
- Uses suspense
- Narrative centres around a crime
- Protagonist - lead moral
- Protagonist - will have a weakness - this is often referred to in the titles
- Protagonist will be seen in peril.
- Antagonist - villain

- Complex web of clues and questions. Leads to the protagonist being isolated.
- Themes of mistaken identity, mirroring, illusions.
- Objectification of females.
- Viewer becomes voyeur
- Micro elements build suspense

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