There are a lot of thriller films that are each unique, we need our film opening to stand out from the others too but still part of the thriller genre. To keep it in the genre, here are some list of conventions in a mindmap that we would need to stick by for our film to be a thriller.
From the thriller conventions above, we cover a majority of the conventions such as using guns, close ups, dark locations, sinister locations, arguments, silences and many more. Therefore we feel like we are qualified as a thriller film.
