Research and Planning- Conventions of a Psychological Thriller.

As we have decided that the genre of our film is a psychological thriller, we wanted to gain more of an insight to the conventions of this type of genre to help expand our idea and include certain aspects of the research in to our film opening and our film synopsis to make it as effective as possible to portray the genre.

Psychological Thriller:

• Emphasis on the psychological mental state of character(s) and the struggle of emotions that they are caught up in.
• Is a sub genre to the 'thriller' film genre.
• Characters reality is usually blurred; unsure of what exactly is going on.
• There can be twists in the story which require the audience to question and think of what can possibly happen next.
• Lots of enigma.
• Can also bring aspects/conventions of horror film genre in to it and link the two together to create a 'psychological horror'.
• Suspense is built up gradually.
• Can sometimes have characters investigating a situation on a character with the psychological problem for example.