Conventions to opening of a thriller;

The film opening I will be focusing on is from the film inception (2000) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqyfMlnxmmI); this film shows the main conversations of a thriller which help the audience identify the film is a thriller early in in the film.

One way in which the film shows the conventions is through mise en scene they show the characters to be well dressed which shows a sense of power and helps the audience to identify the characters of being part of the upper class (will a large amount of money); this is convention of a thriller is to have a villain who is normally part of the upper class as they have a lot of money to be able to provide for themselves for their career chooses and to be able to afford the protection they will be needing for their high risk job. As well as this all the characters were always shown to have weapons on them which adds the sense of danger throughout the film; the use of weapons is a way to show the audience that there is a high risk of danger and that the characters are willing to take as many ricks which are needed to succeed in their careers this is a high characteristic of a character in a thriller film. This also supports the idea of the characters being of an upper class because weapons are expensive and hard to buy therefore they would need to be of the upper class so that they can get the license to get the gun and the money to be able to afford to buy it.
 

Another convention of the thrillers are the way in which the camera angles are used throughout the most common shot to be used is the close up this shows things such as what emotions the different characters are showing this helps allow the audiences to know what the characters are thinking and how this is effecting their thoughts and feelings are effecting the scene. By showing the emotions of the character it helps to show what roles the different characters are playing and how these different roles will affect the film. The main character which is shown in this close up shot and to be showing his emotions is a male character wearing a black suit; he is shown with fear and anxiety which shows the danger in the film and how he is not as strong as the other character showing him to be the weaker enemy of the two groups which helps to build suspense. A long shot is also used to show the setting in which the argument is happening in the opening scene this shot shows the setting to be a temple which is a sacred place which is normally a religious place this is going against what a normal religious place would be used for this helps the audience identify it as a thriller as it is showing a group of people going again he conventions of the society they are living in so are causing themselves and other people danger. 

Something else which helps to show the conventions of thrillers in the opening scene is the sound which is in the clip; the main use of sound is the non-diegetic sound which is used to create tension during different scenes. In the scene where the main character is seen running through the building while different pieces of the building falling down around him there was a slow high pitch music which can cause tension to the audience which is a convention of thriller as the creators of thrillers want to add tension within the first few minutes of the films so that the audience want to the see the rest of the film. 

However something which goes against the conventions of a thriller is setting in which the opening fight is being filmed in this clip is set in a temple which is normally shown as a religious place and a place of worship however this setting it being used to have fight in which is going against what the temple should be used for.  This is very effective as it makes the audience more uneasy as the audience will view the temple as a place in which they worship so helps to convert the stereotype.  Another way they have gone against the conventions of a thriller is the way in which they have editing the different scenes together in the opening they made it all very fast pace with everything moving from scene to scene very quickly however in most thrillers they build up to this so therefore the openings are normally not as fast pace as this opening; the scene openings work slowly so that the tension is created slowly not all at once; I feel they have done this so that there is a sense of tension from the beginning and throughout the film this allows adds a sense of continuous throughout the whole of the film not just at the end this is quite effective as it shows the audience very early on that the film is going to be very fast pace and is going to create a lot of tension.