Tuesday, 4 November 2008

My Thriller

To make my thriller of a good quality there are many aspects of the genre that i will need to take into consideration. This will be hard because the genre is really hard to pin down into what it is. You would identify that a thriller is something that has a fast paced narrative that aims to thrill the audience. however i do believe that this is the only genre that can be splti onto so many sub genres; spy thrillers, conspiricy, horror thrillers, crime thrillers and the list goes on. the key to our group making a good thriller will be trying to stick to what we deem as a good thriller but also what we can realisticaly achieve with the resources that we have.

Four key elements we need to think of when we are making our trillers are;
The theme
The narrative
Characters

A teenagers we aren't going to be able to have an actor that can play an old war s.a.s veteran or police workers like seen in most thrillers. However, youare seeing more character today that start as normal everyday people. In films like Enemy of the state with Will Smith show this brilliantly. This may be in order to make the audience have a greater connection to the characters if the can relate to the situations and the people that they are. In some ways you think of wheather it can happen to you.

The narrative is tradtionaly fast paced in thrillers, the narratives overlap with more twists and turns than the audience would have throught possoible. The protaganist would strive to stop aand opposing force from achieving their goal with a pulse raising climax. I doubt that we would be able to produce something like that. and seen as we are only doing an opening we cant unravel a full story. however thrillers fill their fist 10 minutes with intense narrative and action where the audience are never rarely board. This will be a tall order for us but i think we can do it.

The themes will have to be things that us as a group can relate to. things like crime, conspiracy suspence are constatly seen in thrillers and we will need to think of things like this to make our work creditable. They help to make thrillers what they are. This will be important in the script writing procces which might be the hardest of all the things that we will ahve to focus on.

I dont think that we can produce a piece of work that will shock the world. That would be impossible. But i do believe that if we stick to what we know and love about thrillers, we can use it to our advantage and produce something to be proud of.

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