Introduction to Thriller

Thriller is a genre in the film industry and it aims to keep you enticed and to generally thrill you. It uses suspense and tension to keep you watching as these are key conventions which keep you enticed. Thriller films are very popular and their trailers are normally also very interesting to watch as they tend to not give away the story line, they don't want you to go into the film knowing the base of the storyline.

IMDb shows on its 'movie database' website that 'Pulp Fiction', 'Inception', 'The Dark Knight' and 'Fight Club' are some of the most popular thrillers to people in the world.

Before we decide to shoot our clip we will watch thriller films like these examples to give us some ideas and inspiration. Watching the first two minutes of these films can be a good way to choose what we should do with our clip. We can decide what we think works and what we think doesn't look right. This will help us to get the conventions that we need in to our clip and then we can use them in our filming.