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Crime thrillers commonly explore themes of death, sabotage, revenge, conflict, and deceit. They usually feature a villain who kidnaps or murders a victim, prompting the hero to seek revenge or rescue the victim. The hero often has special training like the CIA. Settings include warehouses, offices, banks, cars, and during chase scenes. Editing uses techniques like jump cuts and zooms to create tension and focus on characters' expressions. Camera movements include establishing shots, tracking shots, and cuts to transition between scenes and locations quickly. Openings frequently use flashbacks or flashforwards to provide context and build tension through depictions of kidnappings, heists, or revenge plots before the credits. Mise-en-

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Common Themes Group Work

Crime thrillers commonly explore themes of death, sabotage, revenge, conflict, and deceit. They usually feature a villain who kidnaps or murders a victim, prompting the hero to seek revenge or rescue the victim. The hero often has special training like the CIA. Settings include warehouses, offices, banks, cars, and during chase scenes. Editing uses techniques like jump cuts and zooms to create tension and focus on characters' expressions. Camera movements include establishing shots, tracking shots, and cuts to transition between scenes and locations quickly. Openings frequently use flashbacks or flashforwards to provide context and build tension through depictions of kidnappings, heists, or revenge plots before the credits. Mise-en-

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Death, sabotage,revenge,conflict, and deceit these are the themes that are commonly found in crime thrillers

Stock characters

Like most film genres there is a villain, the villain often kidnaps or murders a victim this then cause the hero to rise up, this person has usually received additional training e.g. taken Bryan is a ex CIA agent the hero is often connected to the victim in some way and is either trying to seek revenge or attempting to get the victim back so they are safe from the villains hands.

Stock settings

The setting for this type of film can be in many different locations this locations include warehouses, offices, banks, garages , city's, and in some cases aboard trains or in cars performing a high speed chase

Editing

The editing within these films include jump cuts, zooms and many others, the jump cuts are used to create fast paced scenes as there will be much action, zoom is used to focus in on certain characters to emphasize their expressions on their faces and their body language because it shows their feelings towards certain points in the film more clearly allowing for easier viewing.

Camera movements

Within crime thrillers there are many camera shots and movements some of this include straight cuts, jump cuts, establishing shots and tracking shots, the straight cuts are often used to cut quickly to a new scene or location which condenses the film, next is the establishing shot is used so the viewer knows where the clip has been set, and the tracking shot is used to create the idea that the character is being followed this is often used in this film genre.

Common techniques of openings

Many crime thrillers start with either a flash back or a flash forward, these techniques are used to give the audience an insight to the narrative before the story begins, common methods in crime thrillers include captives, heist, kidnappings and revenge, the cuts between action and credits build up tension and help get across the genre of thriller, usually something intense normally occurs during the beginning this is used to make the viewer nervous and question what is happening, the age certification also occurs at the beginning of the film so the audience are already aware of the depth the film will be going into, it gives the audience an insight of the detail before the film has began, voice over's may also be used to create tension and to explain the action about to take place on screen

Mise en scene

Lighting and colours- With the use of lighting the audience can assume on the genre by the way the lighting is displayed, in our thriller, we will be using different levels of low key lighting as it creates a mysterious or suspense like atmosphere. Colours is also a key convention for mise en scene as we associate emotions and thoughts with different colours, red can be associated with love, rage and blood. We can apply this to thriller conventions and use dark greys,black and red, symbolizing blood and death. costumes and make up/hair- The use of costume and make up make actors appear lifelike to their character, how we present the character reflects on how the audience perceive them. With make up you can make them look like everyday people, in relation to thriller films if you want to show a woman fearful and in tears, smudged make up can be used to display her emotions, costumes also give the impression of something else. Setting and props- The setting can relate to location, where the scene is being taken place or where a scene is set. This can be an outside location or inside. With a thriller film the typical conventions of setting would be a haunted house or a dark alley. Props are objects used by the actors, depending on the props used these objects can help determine the narrative, identity of character and genre. Facial expressions and body language- B the use of these elements we are able to capture the emotion of the characters, this includes the gestures, postures and facial expressions by which a person can make clear by various physical, mental or emotional actions. With the non verbal communication the audience is able to assume characteristics about the character and how they are feeling by not being directly told. For example if a character is scared we can tell by Para language, proximitys ect. Position of characters and objectives in a frame - The way characters are positioned within a frame can tell the audience a lot about the characters, levels of supremacy can be identified, how characters are centered and angled. In murder scenes the killer is usually the dominant person, the victim is the minor character, this can be displayed by staging and levels of the characters.

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