Research - Narrative Themes - Ms Begum

Narrative Theme

What are themes? Why are they important to identify for the audience?

Themes is a prominent or recurring ideas in a film, also an idea that is often repeated in a piece of art or literature. Themes are important to the audience because it shows a contrast between genres and shows how films are categorised through themes as certain films have similar themes.

Themes are dependant on genres because there are certain themes that make the genre, for example, thrillers aren't what they are without evil, rivalry, hatred, violence, and some sort of death. Themes are important to all genres and there is always a wide range of themes to a film.

This is an example of themes for some popular genres we see in the film industry today:

Rom-Com	Action	Thrillers	Crime	Sci-Fi	Historic
Breakups	Conflict	Death	Fighting	Space	Fighting
Love	Fighting	Mystery’s	Money	Supernatural	Battle
Loyalty	Crime	Evil	Drugs	Disaster	Land
Happiness	battle	Supernatural	Greed	Science	Ownership
Marriage	Revenge	psychological	addiction	adventure	Hierarchy

The audience has a big impact because they bring a meaning and response from the film. Furthermore, the audience identify/learn ideas, conventions, expectation and anticipation.

In conclusion, the main themes I'm going to use in my thriller opening is supernatural and psychological because I am very interested in these sort of films and I feel I can do a lot with these themes and the ideas will be unique compared to the rest of the thrillers.