http://www.conventionscene.com/

First you need to identify generic conventions of the thriller genre, which is a process that will probably go hand in hand with describing the limits of the genre by a mixture of description, theory and case studies (is the Maltese Falcon a thriller, or a noir? How much do they overlap?). Next you need to become sufficiently familiar with thriller movie plots (Wikipedia can be a big help here, though obviously you can’t quote it in your work) to determine elements they have in common. Most genres can be reduced to pastiche and when you do this you are exposing the most stable elements of the genre. What makes a thriller plot?

Finally, you can look at each in terms of the other. The thriller usually figures a protagonist who is resourceful and brave, but not used to the dangerous situations he/she is thrust into by the plot; a lawyer (the Pelican Brief) for instance. Sex is not usually a motive or a major part of the movie. These types of generalizations from observation are what will enable you to identify genre features. Then you will be able to see that certain types of characters or settings would violate genre conventions so completely as to catapult the movie out of its genre into another one, or into a liminal space between two or more stable genres (like True Grit, which is both a detective story and a Western) – or into a new kind of postmodern metagenre created by shamelessly mating two or more incompatible genres (Cowboys and Aliens).

Richard Maltby is a good writer on this type of stuff – his ‘Introduction to Hollywood Cinema’ covers genre in depth but without becoming incomprehensible, and it’s about £20 on Amazon. I’m not him, by the way.

Good luck!

A biographic documentary should set out to be as unbiased as possible. There should be no flowery language. It should set out to tell the truth. Pictures should bot be forgetten.

An autobiographical documentary can whatever you want but there should be something. Someone sitting on there couch for 2 hours may lead towards boring.

Feature films should be as truthful and unbiased as possible. Not everything may be included but the successful ones (Schindlers List, A Kings Speech) show faulty people.

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most of the time i think when you win the whole convention (like if the convention has a nationals) then you can tour with the convention. In the dance world it is also all about who you know. Some of those assistants could have teachers that grew up with the teachers at the convention. It all depends on the convention.