What Makes A Good Thriller?

A Good thriller must have you on the EDGE of your seat!
It should make you feel like there is always something coming up next that will get you even more excited than you already are!

Key Factors of a Thriller:

• Fast Pacing - This is when the action is quick it happens without you thinking about it, when its all happening at once and you haven't got time to think about whats happening all you want to do is watch it and not take your eyes off it. It keeps the reader intrigued and interested. 
• Resourceful heroes - There is always a hero! So the hero must always have equipment, powers of some kind or a way to get out of any situation put in front of them. Also being smart and finding away out of situations, not only having a power or a tool but being smart! 
• Equipped Villains - Also having an equipped villain to always put a challenge in front of the hero and always try and find a way to be destructive. 
• Powerful - A thriller has to be powerful, so that it scares/ excites the audience. The characters have to be powerful the plot has to be powerful so that the audience is always on there toes and you as a producer can produce a film that will get the people's attention. 
• Constant Action - There has always got to be something going on in a thriller, you cannot have the audience being bored or waiting for something to happen, its got to be there in there face so that they cannot take their eyes of the screen. Always having something exciting coming up keeps not only the film exciting and good but keeps the audience going. 
• Resolutions - Resolutions has a similar idea to being resourceful as it means that the characters must be outwitting and try and get away from people, villains, but also have a way of doing this! 

Key Devices a thriller should have:

• Suspense - There must always be some suspense in a thriller, this could mean from a pause in the film so the audience and confused and waiting... leaving the atmosphere very tense or it could mean giving the audience a clue as to whats going to happen next and creating a build up to your big idea.
• Cliffhangers - A cliffhanger it at the end of s scene or more often a film when you leave the audience wondering and completely on edge but do not let them see whats going to happen next, its painful! 
• Red herrings - A red herring is when you lead the audience into thinking one character is to blame or lead them into thinking one thing has/ will happen when in actual fact in the end that is not the case.. misleading the audience to create more of a twist at the end.  

What is a thriller usually driven by? 

A thriller is usually a villain driven plot whereby they have a master destruction plan and present obstacles in which the "hero" must overcome.