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Variations of Thrillers

Today we looked at different variations of thrillers, such as:
psychological, political, crime and action.

Psychological:
1. a) Internal conflict
b) External mind games

2. Reality identity and paranoia

Political:
1. Innocent
2. Vs the government
3. Conspiracy
4. A secret sense
5. Secret information

Crime:
1. Police investigation
- How are they going to catch them
- Uncovers the truth
2. Trying to preform a crime
- How do they escape
- How do they preform the crime
- Why they did it

Action:
1. Action films - they hero runs towards the action
2. Action Thriller - The hero runs away.
3. How does the hero respond to the problem
a) Instinct to use action
b) forced to use action

Politcal thriller (influence)

A political thriller is a thriller that is set against the backdrop of political power struggle. They usually involve various plots, rarely legal, designed to give political power to someone, while his opponents try to stop him from getting it. They can involve national or international political scenarios. World War II is a favorite scenario, as are US presidential elections. Authors of political thrillers include Jeffrey Archer and Daniel Silva.

The question is often asked "what makes a political thriller?" Erik Lundegaard recently attempted a definition when reviewing the recent film The Interpreter, - (FROM WIKIPEDIA)

As a group we have discussed the relevance of this definition , we agree that Political thrillers are full of power and struggle and this in turn, creates tension. They are also fast paced, this adds to the tension.

Videos from you tube of policical thrillers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k9bqqLUge0 - pelican brief

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-8Ik27_6Uw - Munich

Idea of the genre Thriller

Quotes from Wikipedia:

'fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heros'

'exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas'

'overlap with mystery stories'

All these words describe the genre thriller. Thriller is more psychologically haunting, whereas a horror is more graphic and gruesome.

Prelimary Task

I have chosen Sixth Sense as a influential piece for a thriller , the use of realistic scenarios and situations helps the reader relate and adds depth to the plot. I believe it is thriller and not a horror because the film does not have a lot of stereotypical scenes they are more of a 'thriller ' than horror , there is minimum blood and other harsh fatal wounds shown to affect the viewer. The film is more thriller than horror and i believe Sixth Sense is a great influence because of its sociological value, it tricks the viewer into a scared state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2sDw-XBuKc... Sixth sense trailer

Preliminary task

for our location we have chose the G block elevator , we have chose this because it is obvious for the viewer to understand.

Close up shot - Close up off button being pressed

Match on action shot - outside shot of lift doors closing

Reaction shot - actor walk past elevators , stops , sees character 1 and appears shocked and troubled.

Long shot - long shot from the corridor

Conversation , 180 degrees rule, standing in corridor

Ryan - camera-man
Kirsten - actress one (Claire)
Charlotte - actress two (Jane)

character 2 : OH ! its you ...

character 1 : Hello Jane

character 2 : sorry... erm iv ..got to.... Iv got to go !