Thriller Generic Conventions!

FLIGHTPLAN!

When Kyle boards a plan with her daughter Julia, she falls asleep for a few hours and wakes to find out Julia is missing. When notifying the areoplane staff, they tell Kyle that there is no record of her daughter even boarding the plane, which sends Kyle into panic and determination to find and prove her daughter was onboard and is missing.

Generic Conventions:

• We see in the trailer the use of  the narrative. It is shown by the use of caption over the different clips which support the narrative.
• We see the Protangonist (Kyle) is constantly sent into The antagonists (Captain and flight attendants) increasingly complex web, until the protagonist feels isolated and helpless.
• The narrative presents ordinary situations in which extraordinary things happen. This is a situation which wouldnt usually happen and it is unexpected. It fits with the Pyshcological Thriller genre as it plays on your mind as it with the characters.
• Themes of seeing, reflection and mirroring. Manipulation of perspectives. We see this in the trailer as it is very choppy editing and shows different time periods while searching for her daughter. Her voice also overlaps other phrases she has said from different scenes.
• A series of/ one important enigma(s) are/is set up in the opening sequence of the film, is further complicated during the first part of the film and only resolved at the very end. We see this when the daughter, Julia, draws a heart on the plane window which is then a key part in the story later on.

A TIME TO KILL!
Two rascist white men come across a black mans 10 year old daughter, they violently rape and beat her. She survives and the two men got arrested. The young girls father shoots the two men dead and get sent to court. A lawyer offers to help the black man when no one else does to ensure he is not guilty.

Generic Conventions in trailer:

We see in the trailer the use of  the narrative. It is shown through a series of clips and dialogue from the main characters. It is also showing the film is centered around rape and murder. We then see it is a "Legal Thriller" as a series of different lawyers and justice to people is involved.

The protagonist is fallible and has weakness that is exploited by the antagonist. This is shown as the black man is the hero but the two men that raped his daughter so he killed them. The two dead men then act against him as he seen as a murder to some but a hero to others.

The protagonist will be seen 'in peril' (danger) in one or more scenes before the resolution. This is shown also through the narrative as the black man faces being hung if proven guilty.