Genre Blog: Thriller- Scaring Your Socks Off
Welcome back! The next genre we decided to work on was thrillers. The thriller genre is one of gripping suspense, unpredictability, and uncertainty, which, unlike horror, focuses on the less gory aspects of scaring an audience. Using the same method as before, we'll take a look into what makes up a thriller and determine whether or not we can use its conventions in a work of our own. Camera Angles, Movement, and Shots: In the thriller genre, the director's primary intent is to unnerve the audience without resorting to gore to do so, granted, while this may mean that they sometimes resort to cheap jump scares to creep out the audience, I would say that their use of camera angles and shots is also quite effective in getting the audience on edge. Eye-level shots are the most used within the thriller genre and can be seen during normal conversations or when a subject looks off-screen in fear of an unspecified threat. I believe that the ...
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