What is a Thriller?

Triller is a genre of literature, film and television that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenres of thrillers are: mystery, crime and psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. We studied Thriller as a genre by looking at films such as Children of men and Shutter island. We looked at what aspects of the sequences we saw made us think that its such as tense diegetic music and dark clouds. We found that music was used a lot to build up tension and give the piece a little more suspens to it. Also we found out that different camera shots enable different reactions from the audience.camerawork is used to make sure that the audience always notices the small hints which class the film as a thriller. editing also character's reactions to thrilling occurrences throughout the film.