generic conventions of thriller movies

Thriller: Generic conventions

Lighting:

Dark/noir lighting:
• To place the audience in the same position as the characters
• Evil
• Uncertainty and confusion
• Mystery/enigma
• Suspense
• The idea of nightmare

Chiaroscuro lighting:
• Extreme light on dark
• Reinforces sense of nightmare
• Illusion
• Its aesthetically pleasing

Ambient and non-ambient
• Natural and artificial lighting

Sound:

Diegetic sound:
• Sound within the mise-en-scene
• The characters can hear it
• Helps to put the audience in the character’s position

Non-diegetic sound
• Sound added afterwards
• The character can’t hear it
• Can be the added soundtrack