- Protagonist - "The good guy"/The main character.
- Antagonist - "The bad guy"/The main opponent to the Protagonist.
- Suspense - Building up the tension, making sit on the edge of their seat.
- 'Theatre of the Mind' - Making the viewer feel involved within the thriller.
- Make it Personal - The Protagonist has a strong reason to solve the problem.
Thrillers are a great way of being creative. There are a variety of ways of telling the story just by the way it is shot and edited. In Jaws, there's the use of the trombone shot where the camera is on a dolly moving in one direction and the camera is zoomed to the other. This gives and effect where the main subject is the same size and framing where as the background changes size in the frame giving a distorted effect making it look as if the person has had a sudden realisation. We also have the dutch angle that gives a strange sort of look. When there's a dutch angle, you know something's not right.
Target Audience
People tend to get bored of the same easy to get story line and what a bit of excitement in the movie where they have to keep guessing and their brain is more active. Overall, the main target audience is most likely young adults as their minds are more focused on these types of things.
