Thriller (how to analyse the codes and conventions of a thriller)

 Shutter Island

- Majority is darkness, but part of his face is in the light which conveys something in his emotions.
-  Isolated - showing the location/loneliness
- Red connotes danger
- The match connotes that he is running out of time
- The caption......... is mysterious
- Black connotes fear of the unknown

Road to Perdition

- Clothing signifies a set of the film- 1920's- 1930's
- Faces cannot be indetified = mysterious
- Rain = emphasises darkness and isolation
- Tom Hanks looks like the protagonist
- Child = vulnerable

Terms used to classify a thriller

- Perdition- Shows that one is bad (redemption)
- Genre is the way of categorising and classifying a film e.g. horror.
- Sub-genre is a genre that incorporates different elements and many functions.
- A hybrid is a mixture of genres.

Different types of thriller

Crime - A thriller with a large amount of crime and police.
Medical - A thriller with the use of a medical plot.
Horror - A thriller with a use of sadistic events and abnormalities.
Action - A thriller with an action based storyline.
Comedy - A tongue and cheek thriller with a sense of humour.
Psychological A thriller that can be really engaging and confusing which toys with the mind.
Scifi - A science fiction thriller set in the future showing us things we have never seen before.
Political - A thriller heavily based on law and governments.
Supernatural - A thriller that has a lot of abnormalities and confusing storylines.
Conspiracy - A thriller based on a conspiracy theory that has not been proved real.
Spy - A thriller based one main protagonist, a spy and its secret agency.