Introduction to thriller codes and conventions

To create a successful thriller movie, there are some key things that make a thriller film interesting and exciting! We brain-stormed ideas of a thriller in our lesson and came up with many words and descriptions that describe a Thriller. Some examples are 'climax', 'flashbacks', 'cliff hangers', 'tense atmosphere' and 'mystery'. Thrillers almost always have a villain and then a hero, concentrating mainly on men but women are also present in many thriller films. Thrillers are made to interest the audience and keep them watching, eager to find out what will happen next, this could be a threat that a character is going to die and how they survive which is a very popular plot to base a thriller about.  

As an introduction to filming and creating a plot, we were given 45 minutes to film 'A Journey'. In my group I was with Mattie and Jake, luckily we had Jake in our group who is from the theatre strand so he could act in our film. We felt very happy with our film because it had a funny plot that made the audience wonder what was going on, making it much more interesting.

We used different camera angles to change the perception from being in just one place. We used lots of different places to film so that it would bring attention to the film being about a journey. The plot of our film was quite silly and strange, but we thought it worked well with the title and could include many shot angles in it.