The thriller genre can be sub-categorised into different types although they all seem to share the same basic elements such as a unpredictable plot, heroes, villains, suspense and a link to reality.
These are some of the 'sub genres' that fall under the thriller genre:
- Action Thriller -usually invovles alot of violence, guns, explosions, fast cars etc. It would be hard to create a teaser trailer that projects an action theme as the props and effects needed would be hard to get hold of and expensive. An action thriller would have high production values as alot of money would be needed to fund things such as special effects and elaborate props.
- Crime Thriller -focuses on criminals or police and follows failed crimes or 'successful' ones. A crime thriller could be easy to do as you wouldn't neccesarily need many actors and actresses, and the setting would have to be somewhere reasonably urban (as crime thrillers are usually set in cities and towns). However if you wanted to include the police in a trailer then it would be difficult to get hold of them or a convincing costume.
- Disaster Thriller -usually based around a natural or artificial disaster such as an earthquake or the spreading of a deadly virus (for example in '28 days later' D.Boyle 2002) where the characters experience conflict or try to survive. This type of thriller would be hard to replicate in my teaser trailer as special effects would be needed to simulate a natural or atrifical disaster.
- Psychological Thriller -based upon mental and emotional conflict between the main characters sometimes resulting in a violent ending (for example 'The Uninvited' C.Guard 2009). This type of thriller would probably be the easiest out of all the sub-genres to caryy out in a teaser trailer as the number of actors or the setting is flexible. For example a pyschological thriller could include many characters or just afew, and the location could range from an isolated, rural setting to a busy, urban one.
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