Consideration into thriller

The project I am wishing to undertake can be categorized as a thriller. I thought it would be important to do some research into the characteristics of a successful thriller and consider techniques for my project. Firstly, many quality thriller films are to a certain extent credible, the audience may believe that a certain amount of the screen play could realistically occur. This has the effect of making the film seem frightening. If I wanted to feature something highly unrealistic I could engineer it within a dream sequence.

A good thriller film is usually fairly subtle in the way it creates suspense and tension. I will be making a considerable effort to ensure the techniques in my project will be reasonably subtle, I will do this by developing the tension slowly and slightly, instead of introducing a disturbed character with a knife in the first shot (this would be a ridiculous attempt at building suspense) Thrillers should have reasonable character development. This is important because it would be difficult to make the audience feel fear for the main character if the audience is not interested in the poorly developed character.

The thriller I will be directing will be reasonably short. I feel much more comfortable creating short films, I can focus on creating the screen play that really will be effective rather than concerning over how to fill time gaps. It is a challenging task to say the least, creating a thriller which fits the limitations of a student film.