In our thriller we have incorporated generic conventions which are used to create suspense and build tension. In the first scene it shows the protagonist who is a normal modern day teenager, with all the regular conventional aspects waiting at a bus stop, which then later on in the opening is abducted and replaced with a clone. Our thriller opening can closely relate to the film ‘Taken’ which is also uses a 16-year old as the main character who gets kidnapped and then used for prostitution.
Our thriller opening begins with the protagonist traveling by bus on her own making her way to Broadway as she walks off the bus and down a shortcut in a alley way which is quiet, dark and creepy, she is suffocated by the antagonist who is the kidnapper hidden at the other end of the alley way fully hooded and covered to build suspense and make audience wonder who it may be and why this may be happening.
Conventions of a thriller include action, suspense, mystery, violence, danger, hero/villain, and victim. Our thriller applies these conventions as the innocent; teenager making her way to her friend’s house is abducted by the unknown antagonist who slyly waits knowing she will be arriving down the alley way at that specific time. Danger is shown in the opening as the protagonist is unexpectedly kidnapped and re-placed my a clone wearing dark sunglasses which creates tension for the audience and makes them wonder what happened and what is going to happen next.
As the teenager walks down the alleys way it creates irony for the audience as she seems very vulnerable, walking alone in such a quiet, dark and shadowy place. This all suggests danger and builds suspense which a thriller should do.
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