Sunday 4 January 2009

Different Types of Thrillers 18.12.08

In the last lesson; as a class, we began brainstorming on the different types of thriller genres. This gave us the chance to understand what a thriller movie really is and it also gave us an idea on what type of thriller we could use in our coursework.

There are several types of thrillers that come under the thriller genre:

Murderous passion
E.g. What Lies Beneath

Supernatural
E.g. Sixth Sense

Action
E.g. Bourne Trilogy

Innocent on the Run
E.g. Enemy of the State

Political/Government Corruption

Psychological
E.g. The Shining

Spy

Finally in the lesson we watched several clips from different types of thriller films, these included; 28 Days Later, The Shining, Collateral and What Lies Beneath. The task was to analyse the thriller clips on how lighting, camera, music, editing, setting and location is used to create suspense.

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