Conventions of a crime-thriller.

Crime thrillers generally follow set conventions of heists (e.g. ‘inside Man’), Ransoms (e.g. ‘Ransom’), Revenge and Captivities (A good example of this is how ‘Taken’ integrates both these themes). Thrillers generally entwine the audience and wrap them up into the film, and although granted most films aim to achieve this thrillers generally aim to captivate and stimulate the audience via use of almost an oscillary of emotion, going to high points and low points consecutively. Thrillers are also generally villain driven as opposed to the general protagonist-driven convention of most genres.

Thrillers tend to nest themselves amongst urban and sub-urban areas, though in some cases they tend to branch out into more exotic locations such as beaches and jungles with seemingly blunt threats, though in a lot of cases the threats are sometimes much more hidden, or in some cases actually just mental, take American psycho for example and its incredible ultimatum at the end. We will be adopting the classic feature of an urban environment; London.

Although there is no antagonist per-say all our characters show a good and bad side, and are all trying to maintain possession of this memory stick, so in a way both sides of the characters are shown, and focus is only met upon one character (opening and closing scene character), therefore we establish he is either the antagonist.

In conclusion we have established we will be following many of the conventions of a crime-thriller and therefore we shall hopefully be able to keep the audience ‘thrilled’ throughout.