What can be associated with a Thriller?

Things that can be associated with a Thriller

 

There are many things that we relate and associate with thrillers, this is apart of mise-en-scene. Objects and things we associate with thrillers often has an effect on the audience. When we think of thrillers, we think of confined spaces, blood, shadows, darkness, loneliness and things that can make us scared and put us on edge.

 

Small Confined Spaces are usually related to Thrillers or horrors. Confined spaces help to have an effect on the audience members, it makes them feel as if they are trapped in a small space. Being trapped often leads to the person struggling to get out or breathing heavily, as they're in a stressed environment.

 

Weapons are one of the main objects identified in thrillers. But the main weapon used in thrillers that can be the harshest of all are knives. Being stabbed once or more times is brutal, painful and your suffering doesn't last a short while. Weapons immediately aware the audience that someone could die or get hurt, this grabs the audiences attention.

 

 Shadows have a big impact on how we feel during a film, it puts us on edge, it makes us tense and we fear for the victims life. Shadows and silhouettes create enigmas and brings about a mystery to the film and the killer.

 

 

 Street lamps lit up in the darkness have a big effect on the  audience as its light singles out a victim, and is likely to be what the killer sees or what the audience sees from a distance, this involves the audience a bit as they feel part of the film watching the victim.

 

The setting of a film can deliver the emotion of fear. When we see wide open desolate spaces we fear for the person wondering about on their own.

When we see bars on buildings and fences around a property, it makes us wonder and feel isolated and trapped and sorry for the victim inside. In some cases it could not be the victim inside, it could be the killer. In that circumstance we fear the killer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Sounds such as loud noises or no noise at all can be associated with thrillers. Loud noises can create panic whereas silence can create tension, suspense and mystery.

 

 

Big Cities can also be involved and related to thrillers. In a big city its hard to find a killer, so it becomes challenging. And settings for thrillers in cities can bring a familiarity to an audience.