Most notable thriller actors : Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Lawrence, Matt Daman, Tom Hanks
Greatest thriller directors : Alfred Hitchcock David Fincher, Paul Greengrass
Sub-genre of Thriller : Crime, Mystery, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Action
The target audience is at 'young adults / teenagers'
The reason:
- Younger people like experienceing risks and adrenaline rushes which makes thriller movies very appealing to them.
-The younger generations like more tense and scary movies
Thriller games are also very popular as it also gives the audience/gamer tension.
Thriller has been challanged over the past years, which caused some changes in this genre. One of the first thriller movie " Safety last" was produced in 1923 and was considered to be a thriller in the 20th century, Although the title of thriller is still attached to the movie, it undergoes a lot of the comedy convention. The only part where this movie has the key convention of thriller genre is when he climbed a tower and stumbled and almost fell of, this gives the audience anxiety as it a fatal failure. Now it's not common that a thriller movie doesn't have a crime or murder scenery.
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Analysis of the Movie -> Dune
Mise en scene
- Spaceships
- Sci-Fi
- Historical architecture
- polished marble flooring with dark wooden walls, creating a sensation of peace and nobilaty, cultural and historical decoration.
- warm lighting inside the house
- The facial make up of the imperialist is very pale and unhealthy.
-the outfit well designed polished compact, black implying masculinity and evil.
- freyman outfit, rugged cloth wrapped around their body, no strucure to the design / improvised, well adapted to the extreme conditions of Iraqus.
- the light blue eye's of the freyman symbolises the nature if linked to context is spice, so they are presented as the protectures of the nature.
- Historical decor inside very baroque
Sound
-Timpani at the opening scene establishing the rythem of the sand, at 00:01:40 the timpani began to speed of increasing the tension, and eventually a new equalibrium is reached and the timpani stops.
- when the mother forces the son to use the voice there is 2 sec of absolute silence (digested and undigested silence). building up tension which continues to build up as the violins and violas are playing high pitched polyrythmic and polytextured melodies.
-00:04:58 multilayer voice in syncopated rhythm and distorted harmony
- a lot of high pitched stings playing imperfect cadences
-contrapuntal music when the ship is presented
Editing
- J cut the nartation / music is heard with a black screen presented.
- Slow motion of the explosion to exaggerate it, and create tension
- Mexican filter, dusty yellow - implication dangerous and inhibitable
- Montage of what happened in iraqus from. 00:00:40 to 00:02:00
- Sudden J cut towards the Fire / Harvest machine, implication imperialist are evil
- Cut counter cut over the shoulder shot.
- dissolve
- jump cuts
Shots
- Rackinng focus from deep to extremely shallow
-establishing shot of Iraqus, racking focus of the sand as it is moving towards the camera and turns into glitter particles when out of focus.
- central based shot, mid shot
pedastol down shot to show the impact to the ship, presenting the stricke of the missiles.
-close up, insert shot of the spice with deep focus, fog out of focus creating a frame.
-truck left to right, establishing shot
-zoom onto the male character and silence creating tension.
-waist level truck left to right shot
- crowd shot of the freyman
- fully blurred shot creating suspision as characters face is not presented.
- pan from right to the left when presenting the spice harvestor with deep focus, very cinematic shot but making the audience uncomfortable as we are used to left to right pans.
- dirty single
- two shot
- over the shoulder cut
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Analysis of the Movie -> Baby Driver
Sound
- when the driver playes the music it is diegetic sound, but the people surrounding him can't hear it because he has earphones plugged in.
- Contrapuntal music the robbery and a very uplifting funk
- use of silence to build up tension
- sound bridge L cut
- no dialogue lots of movement and mood delivered by the lyrics of the music
Edit
- a lot of jump cuts and quick cuts to bring pressure to the atmosphere.
- cut counter cut between the characters to present each character.
- cross cuts between the driver and the bank to imply the innocence of the driver
Shot
- Eye level shot, zoom in to show the emotions and facial expression of each character.
- a truck to the right to show the movement of the characters going towards the bank.
- knee angle truck to the right.
- pov shot of the driver looking whats happening in the bank
- insert shot of the handle that controls the gearbox to show the change in speed.
- ankle angle pedastol up
Mise en Scene
- Modern era
- very simplistic casual clothing for the driver with colour
- binary opposition the robbers having black clothing representing evil masculinity and aggression.
- car is red new and well structured showing presenting that it is a fast sports car.
A common trait of the crime thrillers from the past few decades, also a code for the Noir genre; grey. This indicates that many of the characters, or at least some of them, seem to be neither good nor evil. The classic crime thriller The Silence of the Lambs already made this clear. Even though the doctor is a psychotic serial killer who still helps the FBI agent for his own amusement, the audience's dislike of the doctor is lessened by this. By using this method, the binary opposition between the natures of various characters is avoided. As a result, it enables the audience to talk and reflect after the movie on a deeper level about the characters, story, and themes. The difference between thrillers and horrors; thrillers are about the psychological aspects and good thrillers would leave a strong impact on the audience and encourage people to review, reflect and consider the film in depth.
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