Today in Media Studies, we discussed what a 'Thriller' is, and what they can include. A thriller is a play, book or film that depicts crime, mystery and/or espionage along with supense, action and excitment.
A thriller is commonly called a 'Psychological Thriller', because they can sometimes be confusing and hard to follow, and can make you think hard about whats happened, hence 'Psychological'.
Thrillers commonly follow conventions which make them thriller films, a few examples are: the characters and the aura about them, music/sound and clifhangers.
We talked about examples of thriller films: the happening, Seven, Memento, Signs, The Others and Taxi Driver.
We also talked about linear and non-linear films. Linear films are films which are in the right order, e.g. beginning, middle, end. But a non-linear film is when the parts of the story are mixed up, e.g. end, beginning, middle, end. This can happen because a character retells the story of their life or something similar.
The last thing we mentioned was hybrid-genres. These are a mash-up of different genres, like Shaun of the Dead. This film is a Rom-Com-Zom, being a Romantic, Comedic, Zombie film, featuring all of these genres at different times.
Being my first lesson of Media Studies so far, I really enjoyed the structure of the lesson and the things we have so far learn't. Hope theres more to come :)
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