Top tips for making a good thriller.

As a part of my preparation for the shooting. I've read a couple articles about film-making and how to make an interesting tiller. 

Analysing them all, here are 10 top tips for making a good thriller film.

1) 'You need a good story' - Thrillers have to be thrilling. You have to create an intense story, with the key element - the protagonist will fall victim by someone else and be stuck in the moment of dread or be defeated. 

2) 'Write about the underdog' - Write your story from the point of view of the person with the most to lose - family, children, house - give him baggage and emotional complexity.

3) 'Multiple points of view'  - More than one point of view will allow you inside the heads of many characters, which can create more dramatic tension, irony and twists.

4) 'Show action first' - Don't start with biographical information or facts in the beginning - do it later. Show action to the audience, introduce the main hero and the main villain to catch the audience's attention. 

5) 'Establish the aims' - Early on make it clear what your villain and protagonist want - their aims and main conflict so that your audience doesn't get confused by what you show them.

6) 'Make your protagonist suffer' - The struggle between the villain and the hero should be really intense, so make your protagonist suffer - give them false hopes, grief, anxiety - your villain should look powerful and dominating in the beginning.

7) 'Your protagonist need to change' - In order to defeat the villain, the character of your protagonist needs to change - he should become stronger emotionally.

8) 'You have to keep high pace' - You mustn't allow the pace of your thriller to decrease, otherwise it will be boring. Each scene should reveal something new, use more short shot duration and fast cuts.

9) 'Show - don't tell' - Avoid the passive voice, don't narrate the story - show it! Reveal the secrets and twists through the camera work, don't write long dialogues for thrillers.

10) 'Teach us something' - Make sure your audience is thinking about something after they've walked off the cinema - something new they've found out or something new they've experienced.