We decided to create a thriller as it gives us more creative opportunity in terms of narrative. The generic conventions of thrillers are easy to contain within our piece without minimising potential narrative ideas or causing the film to appear too similar to other films of the same genre. Further to this, we decided that a thriller film played better to our strengths as we had already gained experience of how a thriller opening works through our Resident Evil remake. This caused us to decide to follow the thriller genre because we felt like we had a firm understanding of how to construct a successful thriller opening.
Generic Conventions of Thrillers:
Slow intro music to build tension
Crime at the core of the narrative
Complex narrative structure
Extraordinary events in an ordinary situation
Themes of identity/mirroring
Protagonists "flaws" exploited by antagonist
Low key lighting
Close ups
These generic conventions are all fairly basic and can easily be fitted to any chosen narrative theme. This will make conveying our opening as being that of a thriller much easier.
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