Genre Research: Thriller

Hello, you might recognize me as Thomas smith from a few of my past projects, one of which we will be reviewing today. As you can see from the title as well as the PowerPoint, we'll be reviewing the thriller genre. A the beginning of the school year, my teammate, Alyssa Lee, and I were tasked with creating a PowerPoint on a genre of film. I choose to work with Alyssa due to our established working and personal relationship. Alyssa and I had worked on serval projects in middle school and were also great friends. One project that we worked on specifically well as a team was a mock trial in Law Studies in 8th grade. In this assignment, Alyssa and I motivated each other to become better individuals in our respective roles which led to us collaborating near perfectly as a team. With that previous working relationship established, it was time for us to choose a genre to complete. The first thing that Alyssa and I agreed on was the genres that we weren't to choose. From the very beginning, we knew that was didn't want to complete an assignment on the Action, Adventure, Horror, Comedy, or Drama genre. We found that these genres were basic in the sense that you are extremely limited in how far you could venture away from genre norms. We felt that the Thriller genre was opposing to the others, limitless. When completing research for the project we found that the thriller genre contains small parts of each drama. Thrillers often have various comedic moments, action-like engagement in high-paced scenes, and horror-like scares. We also recognized the fact that thrillers can branch off into lesser-explored genres such as politics. Throughout the PowerPoint, we discussed things that you will find in every thriller from lighting to pacing to music to plots and even post-production elements. The lighting that you will find in a thriller is generally low-key lighting to help with suspense. The pacing is generally fast after the first act to create a natural flow of events for the viewer. Music is selected to cope with the feeling and has relevance to the theme or past event. The plot generally follows a 3-act formula, where the first act introduces your characters and their dynamics, the second act introduced a threat, and the third act introduces a solution. Finally, we poke on post-production elements such as titles and fonts which help convey the feeling of eerieness.

Genre Project: Thriller

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