Conventions of thriller movie websites

Conventions of thriller movie websites

Perhaps the clearest convention shown in all of these websites is the use of mysterious photographs as their main image that is the first thing the audience sees. These images are used to build a sense of mystery and leave the audience wanting to find out what happens so therefore they will most likely end up paying to go and see the movie.

The colour red is associated with death as it is the colour of blood so one can assume that this is a fairly violent movie. This picture has been cleverly edited so that half of her is red and the rest consists of sparrows flying away and therefore makes up the name of the movie without even having to write the name.

A similar thing has been done for the image at on this website as it is called A Quiet Place and is clearly being shot in some woods which are generally quite quiet. On top of this the man is also holding his hand over the boys mouth as if telling him that he should be quiet in this place.

'Us' is rather different as the trailer starts playing straight  away as soon as the page finishes loading, this means that there is no single image. However, the audience is instantly aware of the genre of this movie as soon as they see the two girls in the car who are terrified of the man coming towards them. The aim of this trailer is to get the audience to side with the two girls and feel sympathy for them. Hopefully they feel so emotionally invested in this movie after seeing the trailer that they just have to go and see it in the cinema.

Seeing as this is the third movie in the series and that it is based on a book, the situation does not surprise many people. This is why they chose to use a dramatic photo of the main characters that people have built an imaginary bond with over the last two movie so it evokes an emotion that makes them want to go and see this movie when it is released as they just need to find out what happens to their characters.