Conventions of a Thriller Genre

KEY Cinematogriphic Techniques

• Crosscuts
• Quick cuts
• Long shots / Extreme long shots
• Dramatic scores

Narrative Techniques

· Enigma Codes iswhere mysteries and questions are set up in the narrative. The audienceanticipate the enigmas being solved

· Action code iswhere an event on screen leads the audience to anticipate a subsequent action which also builds tension and excitement.

· Dramatic irony iswhen the audience knows something that the character on set doesn’t know for example a woman ready to kill a man walking up the stairs however he doesn’tknow that the woman is at the top of the stairs. Contains elements of omniscience.

· Red herring is when the audience is fed false or misleading information.