Codes and conventions of the thriller genre mostly take advantage or the sound, mise en scéne and editing to induse tension and suspence while keeping the audience on the edge of their seats, carrying small shocks at some unexpecting parts.
With camera quick pans, cuts and stable shots and unusual camera angles, showing only parts of the body to keep the audience guessing.
Heres an example of that.
Sound plays a big role in thrillers because its one of the main points when building tension, strings of quiet reacurring sounds that get louder and louder gradily can be as easy as it gets, but different sorts of sounds cause the audience to react in different ways, high pitched noises are mainly used for films which have killers or psychopathical themes a good example of this is the famous film clip with the woman in the shower sihouletted with a guy about to stab her with a knife by Alfred Hitchcck in 1960, the sound used is this high pitched repeative instrumental that even today proves to be very effective.
Mise en scéne mostly consists of dark lighting and unseen figures, its often confusing and misinterprete. Thrillers are quite close to horrors in this area they both mostly have dark, eriee, unsafe settings some we are familar to and others complete cliches like Zombieland (where they end up in a theme park fighting off the endless zombie horde) it helps get the audience into the right frame of mind when building tension or suspence.
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