Thriller

For our main task, we have decided to take the challenge of creating a thriller opening. One definition of the thriller genre that we have found is as follows,

Thriller: Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains.

Even from reading this definition we can see how this genre has some specific conventions and common characteristics that come with it, we feel that if we are to take up this genre for our main task we should identify some of these conventions in order to see which ones we may apply to our movie opening, or ones that we may challenge.

Below lies a list of what we have found to see seen in most movies of this genre.

• Thrillers often take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas
• The heroes in most thrillers are frequently "hard men" accustomed to danger: law enforcement officers, spies, soldiers, seamen or aviators.
• Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots.
• In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened.
• In thrillers influenced by film noir and tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process.
• Thrillers have been increasingly influenced by horror or psychological-horror exposure in pop culture, an ominous or monstrous element has become common to heighten tension.
• The monster could be anything, even an inferior physical force made superior only by their intellect, a supernatural entity, aliens, serial killers, or even microbes or chemical agents.

In creating the plot of our movie we will decide from this list what conventions we should take on to give the theme of a Thriller movie and the list above will help us in constructing our story.