GENRE: Thriller

During my media course I was set with the task to construct and evaluate a film of 2 minutes in length. We decided to create a thriller, this is because action typically requires a large budget and special effects. Horrors require excellently developed costumes and special effects. Comedy is subjective and what some may enjoy others may despise and the same goes for romance.

The thriller genre main aim (other than making money) is to freak out or thrill the target audience. I believe the target audience is aged between 16-30 (however obviously younger people and older people do watch these films) and social classes range from D-A this because the 'damsel in distress' and protaganist characters are mostly likely rich 'white trash' american teenagers that drive lambo's and ferarri's, thats a pretty good convention, dont you think? But also in thrillers, because of the sub genre's it contains sometimes it can be quite a mystery and sometimes very creepy.

Mise-en-scene: The main use of guns and weaponary as props, shocking music and sometimes quite intsrumental. The music then bodes well with the visuals, adding that 'tension' that is needed in a thriller.

Sometimes desaturation and changes in colour are nessacery and are almost a convention themselves. An example of this is in Sin City which wouldn't be the as good of a film if it weren't for the desturation or as it is now known as 'the Sin City effect' which also is used to make a piece of film look like a graphic novel.

Obvious conventions are used aswell, such as the motel manager who is not all that he seems, or the the loving father and husband who slowly goes insane, but the use of sub genre's like action or horror make the thriller.
These elements are blatently seen like the action genre's car chase or shootout and matrix style fighting, and horror's axe wielding maniac and the serial killer that is really a ghost, but rather than these conventions being seperately classified i believe that they are a hybrid of both that makes up a thriller.