Genre Research: Thriller & Drama

 Thriller

  • Common lighting in this genre is backlighting, under lighting, and lowkey lighting. This helps to create a dark and mysterious atmosphere and helps to conceal the character's identity, which adds to that suspense. 
  • Some common camera angles are close-ups shots, which exemplify the emotions of the characters or frames an object, to be at attention. Point of view shots allow the viewers to feel emotionally engaged because they feel as though they are the character. 
  • Tracking is a common camera movement that follows the character's action but at the same doesn't spoil the movie. 
  • For this genre costumes usually worn by the antagonist are darker.
  • Weapons are commonly used as props to help convey risk and danger. 
  • The settings are normally in an intense location usually secluded. 
  • A common form of editing in this genre is parallel editing which helps to add tension and illustrate the character's emotions. 
  • The sounds this genre usually contains are fast-paced music, slow piano, and high-pitched violins. 
  • Some examples of this genre are Silence of The Lambs and Black Swan
  • Some common elements in the thriller genre that I enjoy are suspense and tension that keeps the viewers at the edge of their seat. 
  • A common element in the thriller genre that I don't like is the predictability of the friend close to the main character who usually dies.
Drama
  • Common lighting in the genre drama is lowkey lighting, hard lighting, cinematic lighting, and side lighting.
  • Some common camera angles are medium angle, close-up angel, extreme close-up angel, and the over-the-shoulder shot.
  • Common camera movements are horizontal movements, hand-held movement, and verticle movement.
  • The costumes usually fit the personality of each character.
  • Props can literally be anything that falls into the situation or storyline.
  • The settings are usually realistic and usually play into real-life characters.
  • They edit in a way to leave questions unanswered and an uncertain storyline.
  • Common sounds in drama are the actor's voices, sound effects, the interaction with props, and background music.
  • Some examples of the Drama genre are Me Before You and Parasite
  • Some common elements in the drama genre that I like are the many internal conflicts, heavy emotion, and tension.
  • An element I don't like is the predictability of many.
















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