Conventions of a thriller

• Conventions of a psychological thriller:

-Normally has an internal conflict occuring. An external mind game
-Has issues with identity, reality and paranoia
-The characters have to resolve the internal struggle before plot resolution can occur

Conventions of a political thriller:

-A character VS the government
-conspiracy
- the secret service involved
- secret information known or uncovered

Conventions of a Crime thriller:

- police investigations being carried out
- some one trying to perform a crime
- Has a variety of questions that have to be answered in the film which are:

• How is the criminal going to perform the crime?
• Why are they doing the crime?
• How are the police going to catch the criminal/criminals?

Conventions of an action thriller

-In an action thriller the hero runs away from the action instead of going towards the action
-The way the hero responds to the problem makes it different to an action film in a thriller the hero is forced to use action unlike in an action film where the hero's instinct is to use action.