Introduction to brief.

For our first lesson we were told the specifications of the course. The course entails making a two to three minute thriller opening aimed at a 15 or 18 certificate. The definition of a thriller is a 'suspenseful adventure story or play or movie'. In the lesson we discussed what we thought a thriller was and what a thriller involved, discussing red herrings, suspense, atmosphere and sub-genres as well as hybrids. We also talked about how that thrillers can sometimes be likened to horrors as they both use suspense and atmosphere but horrors tend to focus surviving the gore and murders where as thrillers are about solving the mystery behind the problem.