Thriller conventions

Thriller conventions:    

 Thriller. The edge of your seat genre filling the audience with anticipation of the actors next move, next step, and even next idea. Keeping the audience on their toes, awake and alert.  The films that thrills the audience, fills them with suspenseful excitement. While watching a thriller movie the emotions received by the audience will be massively mixed, ranging from excitement and suspense to anticipation and anxiety, all of which add to the surprise of the film. There are a lot of subgenres that fall into the thriller category all of which will follow the basic conventions of a thriller such as: crime thriller, disaster thriller, action thriller, conspiracy thriller, legal thriller, psychological thriller and religious thriller. 

The main conventions of all thriller films are: 
* low key lighting 
* quick cuts
* shadows 
* music that creates tension 
* various changes in angles and shots 
* diegetic sound or heavy breathing
* the protagonist reaches a climax 
* ideas in which symbolise the wrong out come 

Some examples of thriller films are: now you see me 2, the conjuring 2, Jason Bourne and many more. 

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