By Aycan Mehmet

Thriller uses elements of suspense and tension to anticipate the viewers senses.

There are different sub-genres such as psychological thrillers, crime thrillers and many more. Crime thrillers usually have a theme of heists and revenge. Psychological thrillers have a theme of mind games and horror-of-personality.

Alfred Hitchcock is a notorious thriller director who is infamous for the films Psycho and The Birds.

Low key lighting

Fast paced cuts

Montage editing

Flashbacks

Tense Music

Disorientation of

Time and Space

Shadows

Urban Cities

Untrained

Protagonist

Exotic/Abandoned

LocationsHorror-of-Personality

(Psychological

Thrillers)

Mystery that needs

to be solved

Innocence in a

corrupt world.

Suspense

Heists (Crime

Thrillers)

Stalking

Crime Thriller

Sci-Fi Thriller

Erotic Thriller

Spy Thriller

Conspiracy Thriller

Psychological

Thriller

Supernatural

Thriller

Mystery Thriller

The Godfather classes a Crime Thriller. It was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and was adapted from a novel by Mario Puzo . This film is based on the Italian Mafia

Plot: There are Five Sicilian Families living in New York, the main focus is on the Corleone Family. They go through various conflicts with the other families and one causes the main protagonist Michael Corleone to leave New York to Sicily for a little while. for the majority of the film the story focuses on Michael’s evolution to be the Godfather

Codes and Conventions: we

expect to see a weapon and

blood as it is a crime thriller. We

mainly focus on the ‘criminals’

rather then the police. Also there

are a lot of close ups and extreme

close ups . The lighting is mainly

dark to evoke a sense of

mysteriousness. The main theme

is frequently played throughout

the film.