What makes a thriller?

A thriller is a film which should use conventions in an effective and imaginative way to create suspense through the first few minutes of an opening. This will make it more exciting to watch and wanting the audience to watch more. In my opinion, I believe that an opening should be easy to understand with little given away as possible as there it little reason to watch the rest of the film. The opening must have a variety of shots shown to give more effect and add more entertainment on the audience, if one shot it shown throughout the film it will become very boring and not as effective that a thriller opening should be. Also, the editing is very important as I believe the film should be edited in a way so that every aspect is perfect to the thriller genre.

An example of a thriller film is 'Phycho'. This film breaks conventions in the way that a murder takes places inside whereas, a generally typical murder scene would take place outide, in darkness in the middle of nowhere. The gender of the murderer is also hidden in an effective way due to the camera angles. For example, the picture on the left shows an unknown character's shadow due to the fact they're behind a shower certain, this shows the audience that you can't tell if it's a man or a women. Once again, a typical sterotype of a thrillers murderer would be a man as they are the dominant gender out of the two and are considered the strongest. In that way, the women in then considered the victim as they're more vunrable and weaker.

A typical object is used for the muder weapon (a knife) which shows the conventions for a thriller genre.