The Hollow Pond
MAHD Productions
Breaking Bad has been categorised as a TV thriller series because it contains many codes and conventions of thriller movies. It often uses pulse-raising music to build tension and establish on coming danger. The central characters are grey characters, people who are involved in crime but the writers make you empathise with them, e.g. Walter White and his alter-ego ‘Heisenberg’. Props featured regularly in the show include guns and other such weapons; commonly featured props in the thriller genre to foreshadow danger and violence. The plot lines in the show constantly revolved around the possibility of the central characters getting caught, so tension was constantly being built throughout the show.
BREAKING BAD
~Mark O'Brien
TV thrillers are very similar to Thriller movies when it comes to the codes and conventions that they follow, therefore we can incorporate these into our own work. TV thrillers are allowed more time to build suspense and develop characters compared to movies. Whereas TV shows can build tension over time, the time of our film will be limited.
LOST (2004-2006) was an American drama that used thriller codes and conventions to create the unsettling atmosphere on a desert island that survivors from the flight Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 's plane has crashed on. On this mysterious island, the survivors encounter peculiar entities such as polar bears, an unseen force they deem the "Smoke Monster" and malevolent and mysterious other inhabitants that occupy the island ("The Others"). The show has received numerous awards and accolades including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series and a Screen Actors Guild Awards 2005 for Best Ensemble Cast along with numerous other awards for the cast and crew (Best Lead Actor,Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress being won respectively . The show has been described by numerous critics as being among the greatest television series of all time, with Bill Carter, television reporter of The New York Times, proclaiming Lost as "the show with perhaps the most compelling continuing story line in television history."
*Hannah Lee*
