The conventions of the Thriller/Horror genre are to do with sound and editing. E.g. quick cuts and camera angle changes, music that gives tension when appropriate. It can be do with lighting, especially the use of shadow. Mirrors and stairs are also conventions of thriller movies.
The codes and conventions are mainly what the audiences expect to see within a thriller, this includes all types of thrillers, such as cross genres, such as action, adventure, sci-fi etc.
What audiences expect to see is what producers need to include in attracting their audience. The codes and conventions within a thriller mainly allows a female protagonist to be a victim of a dominant male character, this enables the audiences to familiar themselves with the stereotypes as females are always vulnerable dependent victims, and the dominant male figures as being dominant.
Psychological thrillers which are sub genres play with audience’s minds by manipulating a character or a plot to keep audiences guessing. However cross thriller genres involving adventure and sic-fi; use a slightly different way of using codes and conventions as there are not many ways to engage audiences. For example within a thriller, in a scene where it is scary and engaging, it will be more likely to see dark colour's so the scene can be represented in a way that audiences expect to see it, also the sound which would be loud and intense.
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