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Generic Conventions
Generic Conventions
De-Saturated Lighting:
NARRATIVE
RESTRICTED NARRATION:
This narrative style is used mainly in
thrillers as if only allows minimal
information for the target audience.
Overall building up tension and
engaging the audience more, creating
enigma for them.
ANACHRONIC:
EDITNG
FLASH CUTTING:
Editing is a variable concept to making a thriller movie very powerful. One of the popular
editing techniques, which can be symbolism for the thriller genre, is flash cutting. This is a
short quick shots; producing a weary or, jumpy atmospheric mood on the target audience.
Mimicking a heartbeat of the target audience or protagonists.
MONTAGE OF SHOTS:
A montage of shots is used to juxtapose shots in a fast-pace nature that compresses time
and conveys a lot of information in a short time period. Again this can imitate the fast
heartbeat of the audience or protagonists as the tension builds through disruption and
recognition stages of disequilibrium. Montage shots can also signify some subliminal cuts,
as the fast pace of the cuts may reveal hidden information, which is too quick for the
SOUNDS
NON-DIEGETIC:
CAMERAWORK
POINT OF VIEW:
CANTED ANGLE:
SYNCHRONOUS:
PARALLEL: