1) Thrillers commonly use tracking and pan shots at the beginning to introduce important characters and set up locations. Close ups and establishing shots are also frequently used. 2) Low camera angles are often used to depict powerful characters while cross cutting fills the audience in on multiple unfolding events. 3) Non-diegetic music and dialogue are used to build atmosphere and tension through revealing character motives and relationships. Actors are usually centered at first to introduce them before their movements reflect their situations.

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2. Titling.
• Most of the films I've studied have seemed to
have their credits done over a black screen
with some non diegetic music playing in the
background to set the scene. It is also
common for some films to start with a
particular event before titles start to show.
Another convention of titles is that usually the
most important film companies or actors in
the film are shown first in the credits.

3. Camera movement.
• Tracking and Pan shots is what’s commonly
used in the beginning of thriller films,
particularly a certain group of people who we
should be interested in as the audience.

4. Framing of shots.
• The most typical shot used in thriller films
seems to be the close up. Long shots have also
been a commonality among thriller films
being used to set the scene and show the
audience where the action will be taking place
in the upcoming events of the film.

5. Camera angles.
• Things that seem to be quite common are the
low levels of framing and the high angles at
certain points, the high angle is used mainly to
show those in a powerful position. There
seems to be a main character(s) in the
beginning which seems to have the majority
of power and this is shown through the
camera angles.

6. Mise en scene.
• The general location used in the thriller
movies seem to depends on the story of the
movie themselves and because of that there’s
a lot of difference in location.

7. Editing.
• Cross cutting become a commonality during
thriller films. This is usually because multiple
things are happening that we’re unaware of
and the jump cuts fill us in, they allow us as
the audience to make assumptions on what
the story or characters will be like.

8. Sound.
• All films have non diegetic music playing in the
background creating a sound bridge to create
a certain atmosphere. Dialogue usually gives
us an insight to the characters motives or their
relationships with other characters in the film.
This is very thought provoking and does well
to build up tension, which seems to be a
strong convention for thriller films.

9. Actors positioning and movement.
• The intro is our first introduction to a
character(s) so they normally tend to be in the
middle of the frame. Their movement
however seems to be very dependent on the
situation they’re in at the time. A characters
movement usually tells us something about
the person, and through the movies analysed.
So it seems a convention for their to be two
different groups with two different movement
patterns.