Monday, 13 October 2014

Genre - 30 minutes

Essay

To what extent does your thriller conform to traditional structures of genre?

My thriller follows some but not all genre structures.  We didn’t include everything that each theory included as we didn’t need to. Many things are expected in thrillers and to carry this out we needed to include that so it would conform to that theory.

Neale’s theory was that over time the thriller is dynamic and evolves over time. My thriller does not conform to this as the thriller does not evolve over time due to showing the reason as to why the men are meeting and exchanging package is shown at the end of the thriller. If it was to evolve over time the kidnapped girl would be shown at the beginning.

Chandler’s theory is that the setting, prop, costume, camera angles and lighting. The settings of the place is in a busy town using a male in suite as this

1 comment:

  1. You have come to a decision about 1 of 5 theories.

    WT U

    To improve:
    Use the word conventions - this is AS level terminology
    Be specific about what this is - not just props but specifics
    4 more theorists applied not explained

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