The Thriller genre is a film that provide thrills and keeps the audience at the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax. The genre uses suspense, excitement and tension as its the main components and strives for a anxious, high tensioned response that well known directors of this genre seek to provide.
IMDb (The Internet Movie Database) provides a substantial amount of information on all films. From the information I have read, thrillers seem to be a very popular genre, as it supported some of the highest grossing films of all time (information provided by Worldwide Box Office). This genre including films such as 'Inception' (Directed by Christopher Nolan 2010) which was ranked 25th and had an overall gross of $292,568,851. 'The Dark Knight' (also directed by Christopher Nolan 2008) ranked 7th and had an overall gross of $533,316,061.
Alongside these popular films, many other Thriller hits made it onto the list such as 'Fight Club' (Directed by David Fincher 1999), 'Se7en' (Directed by David Fincher 1995), 'Psycho' (Directed by Alfred Hitchcock 1960) and 'Jaws' (Directed by Steven Spielberg 1975).
Before creating our own thriller, we will be be doing some advanced research into sub genres of Thrillers and also looking at examples of opening sequences. This will give our group more ideas on how to create our 2 minute task and will also helps us to see what conventions are used within thrillers and how we could incorporate them into ours.
References: IMDb and Wikipedia
IMDb (The Internet Movie Database) provides a substantial amount of information on all films. From the information I have read, thrillers seem to be a very popular genre, as it supported some of the highest grossing films of all time (information provided by Worldwide Box Office). This genre including films such as 'Inception' (Directed by Christopher Nolan 2010) which was ranked 25th and had an overall gross of $292,568,851. 'The Dark Knight' (also directed by Christopher Nolan 2008) ranked 7th and had an overall gross of $533,316,061.
Alongside these popular films, many other Thriller hits made it onto the list such as 'Fight Club' (Directed by David Fincher 1999), 'Se7en' (Directed by David Fincher 1995), 'Psycho' (Directed by Alfred Hitchcock 1960) and 'Jaws' (Directed by Steven Spielberg 1975).
Before creating our own thriller, we will be be doing some advanced research into sub genres of Thrillers and also looking at examples of opening sequences. This will give our group more ideas on how to create our 2 minute task and will also helps us to see what conventions are used within thrillers and how we could incorporate them into ours.
References: IMDb and Wikipedia
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