The Genre

Our movie leans towards the thriller genre, and so I'm now going to talk about some of the conventions and styles of this genre. We aimed to not make our film about a heroine winning through, but in the broader aspect of the whole plot, to make it about the villain of the piece succeeding.
A huge characteristic of this genre is a fast-pace. The fast-pace creates a sense of action and suspense to try and grip the audience and draw them into the story.
Another way of creating suspense in this genre is the use of cliffhangers, where the action reaches a peak, before cutting away from the excitement at the pinnacle of the action to another scene, that is generally less exciting and slower paced.
A technique we want to incorporate into our film is to lay a false trail of suspects, to help keep the audience guessing who the villain is, and to create an air of mystery and suspense, as the technique does in mainstream thriller films.
Quite often the thriller genre abandons hiding the identity of the villain of the plot until the end of the film, and will reveal them to create more suspense and action between the hero of the film and the villain.