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Film Pre-production
Initial Meeting
Crime Thrillers
Conventions
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Police -> Audience placed in the perspective
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Violent scene
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Guns -> weapons
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The male protagonist ( wisdom/ brawn)
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Investigations -> audience is invited to try and figure out the mystery.
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Low-level Lighting
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Chase sequence.
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Weather works against the protagonist -> Isolation
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Time constraints -> Protagonist need to solve a crime before
Psychological Thrillers
Conventions
Incorporate elements of mystery
Themes of crime,
Themes of morality,
Mental illness,
Substance abuse,
Multiple realities
Dissolving sense of reality,
Unreliable narrators
Themes of Obsession
Eerie music
Black and white colouring
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