a thriller is a type of genre that creates emotions in the audience like terror and suspense. The book or film is designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. People enjoy the sensation of fear with not actually being in harms way.a genre is a category to group media arts that have similarities.
the thriller genre is very large with smaller sub genres in it. examples if sub genres of a thriller are :
- action - These films are fast-paced, hero-centered full of action and excitement
- supernatural - The character (the hero or villain) has some sort of supernatural power that must be called upon
- mystery - where the murder has to be uncovered
- disaster - These films deal with some type of disaster, either natural or man-made
- action
- drama
- murder
- a hero
- villain
- tension
- mystery
- suspense
He defines the difference between mystery and suspense,
"Mystery is an intellectual proses like in a who'd done it, but suspense is essentially an emotional proses there for you can only get the suspense element going by giving the audience information"
Going back to sub-genres, we did an exercise in class of writing down what type of characters and locations we would expect to see in different sub-genres. When each group said what they had written down it turnewd out that the whole class had thought of the same characters and locations. In thrillers as a genre there are certain things that make you know it's a thriller, going deeper in that there are even specific props, people and locations that you can definatly link with a sub-genre.
Supernatural thriller:
charaters - zombies, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, devils/demons or witches
location - creapy old house, graveyards, fields/woods, derlict buildings, anywhere that makes the character trapped or isolated so no one can help them
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