Developing knowledge on Thrillers

The narrative structure commonly goes through 4 stages; equilibrium, disruption, development, resolution. Although as Thrillers are for the more intelligent viewers, what's considered a good thriller tend to drift from these conventions. For example some Thrillers bring the audience immediately to the disruption and chaos of the story line(s). This allows a perfect opening as the audience would be swarmed with narrative enigma's and a huge mystery as to what's going out. This is very effective for creating a mood of suspense. Mise-en-scene contributes hugely to setting the mood for the film, for example the emphasis on props using bullets or a gun has many implications and sets possibly a tense mood. Lighting and location are extremely important (as everything is) to creating the intended mood/atmosphere/theme. For example, commonly used for crime investigation type thrillers, it could possibly be a wet dark street and instantly you would begin associating this location with a crime scene where a crime of some sort is about to be committed.
We've decided to go straight into a disruption as we believe this is key to instantly grabbing audiences attention. Following Shane Meadows costumes, props, location will be all basic and set around local area's to add to the realism and relatability. We have no specialist lights to use so we're relying soley on natural lighting for any outdoor scenes and basic room lighting for any indoor scenes. This means when we're plannning to film anything outside we must ensure our times are appropriate and that there's a steady continuity.