Final Destination 5 (2011)

The film opens with non-diegetic low pitched music, creating a mysterious, creepy atmosphere right from the beginning for the audience. This opening is used in order to give the audience a sense of what is to come for the rest of the film, and immediately hints at its thriller genre.

The opening credits appear with short, loud intensified music that is used to make the audience jump and create an even more mysterious atmosphere. As well as this, a visual technique has been used to make the screen that the audience are watching the film on appear to be smashing like glass. This has been used to not only create tension for the audience but has also added an element of shock and action, two conventions regularly associated with thriller films.

As well as the breaking glass effect, the appearance of some kind of blaze or fire implies an explosion, another effect commonly associated with thriller films and also adds an element of danger to the audience, making them more intrigued as to the actual plot of the film as well as scared of what they might actually find. As seen below, the visual and sound effects have been use in sync with each other in order to create a suspensful atmosphere and making the audience feel almost in danger, while also telling them that the film is a thriller.