Section 1: The Thriller Genre

The genre Thriller tends to use dual narrative which means telling the story from two different prespectives. They require more of the psychological side when it comes to the storylines.  Characters in thrillers usually include protagonists - pro meaning good. There are also antagonists - ant meaning bad. The locations that are seen in thrillers are usually set in dark, urban environments with lighting that helps create lots of shadows, giving the audience an unpleasant feeling. To create tension and suspense for the audience, peaks and climaxs are used to twist the storylines, helping to introduce a technique called red herrings. These are there to distract the audience from thinking what might usually happen in scary movies. When it comes to music, non-diegetic sound is used creating tension with it either building up or ending in silence. Contrasts in colour are seen in Thriller movies, mainly consisting of black, white, grey and red.

 Theories of the Thriller Genre:

The Transformed City:
  Where an ordinary setting is changed to the extrodinary. Most movies in the Thriller genre are located in a urban setting like a city which change to the extordinary through a killing or something bad happening in the setting. For example in Jaws, a gang of teenagers have decided to have a party at the beach, which is the ordinary setting, but in the previous sence, we've seen what appears to be a shark lerking in the waters which has made it changed to an extrodinary setting. This helps for the movie to be exciting and more thrilling for the audience.

The Question and Answer Model:
  Where the audience ask themselves questions like: who could the murderer be? Why are these certain people being killed? and Who will be nexted? These can help to create a sense of suprise at the end of the film when all is revealed - the answer.

Mazes and Labyrinths:
  Mazes and labyrinths used in the Thriller genre means the characters going through a series of pathways that eventually come to a dead end, like a police chase where they are chasing an antagonist through corridors, back streets, alleyways, etc and end up with a dead end in the sense of there are no more leads in the investigation and cannot figure out who the antagonist may be. 

Concealment and Protraction:
  Concealment is like hiding the identity of the antagonist from the audience, this leading them to think what might/will happen next. Whereas Protraction is seen when the audience don't know when the next attack or killing will take place but we know they will be more death, helping to create suspense and not showing a clear outcome to the audience. The both send the audience in different directions. 

Partial Vision:
  This is when the audience is not shown the whole picture, leading them to wonder what is going to happen next, with what little information of the narrative they already have. For example, in some Thrillers like Se7en, we are never shown the murderers face whilst he's killing the victim, nor the victim being attacked. This is when we don't know how the murders have been committed. We only see the identity of the murderer at the end of the film when the case has been solved and they've been captured; if they've been captured.

The Heroic Romance:
  This is when we empathise with the character through what they have been through like the Thiller Se7en, Detective Mills is seen as the protagonist. Even though the audience's first impressions of him didn't seem to be different compared to our feeling with the other characters like Detective Sommerset as he is just a police officer, we have seen how he's reacted with these murders and his point of view of the murderer so when we see his reaction to the murder of his wife, we empathise with him as we know how much he loved her and the audience want to know whether he'll decided to kill the murderer or not for revenge.

The Exotic:
  When something is different to what is normally there and doesn't fit into the plot at some point. For example, a character has changed their location from living in the countryside to living in the city, like Detective Mills' wife, Tracey, in the film Seven. She gives the audience the impression that she doesn't fit in with the new lifestyle and left alone all day in the flat, creating the sense of isolation and being ignored. She doesn't seem to fit into the plot until she is murdered at the end of the film.