This thriller was created with some of the most conventional and very typical thriller genre conventions that were meant to create suspense, tension, uncomfortability, and edginess for the audience. All this together was used to outline the framework for the genre. The thriller opens with good lighting, camera angles, and light-heartedness as we all know is always used at the start of a thriller film to give the audience some peace of mind, this was at 00:05 of the thriller opening sequence.
The main convention in our thriller was the plot twist, which was used quite well with how the scene played out. At 00:26 an unrecognisable figure who was wearing a black hat ran straight past the protagonist, who was terrified when the person ran straight past him. In this situation the audience would now think that the tension is over and that was the end of the plot and now the girl will get back home safe and sound. Until the real antagonist shows up at 01:28. He is seen sitting at the corner waiting for his prey like a lion in a field. It is like he planned everything and had been watching the protagonist the whole time, from when she was on the phone with her mum at the start.
The camera technique the over-the-shoulder shots bringing the audience in close to the protagonist's perspective and other elements such as swift transitions between the character and his environment—and a simultaneous feeling of being watched or stalked. Another technique frequently employed to underline thriller situations is the use of extreme close-ups to capture nervous expressions on characters' faces and long shots to distance them from any help, adding to impending doom.
The narrative structure strictly follows the thriller conventions because it places the character in an uncertain and hazardous position. An unknown pursuer (the antagonsist) always raised a bit of suspense, making the audience wait to see what is to follow. That's why in this genre the viewers so often know more than the protagonist—who does not suspect a lurking figure ready to harm him from behind them at 01:43.
