Monday 6 March 2017

Our chosen genre and research

We have decided to chose the crime/mystery genre. This is because we are all interested in the genre and we have a lot of knowledge about the genre through the research we have to such as looking at similar openings such as the Shining.

This will help when making our opening so we can refer to different films of the same genre for some inspiration for the making of our opening and so we can get ideas of certain things to include in our opening.

The crime genre is when crime and famous criminal acts are made into film. It's not one of the most popular genres but their have been some very successful films under the crime genre. Crime films generally show the rise of the criminals life and the fall which involves either their death or their imprisonment. Crime films will include things such as death, blood, drugs, law enforcement, money and prison. Characters will be people like Detectives, The criminal and sometimes a mysterious villain. The villains identity is normally revealed at the end of the film. The detective will spend their time looking to solve the case over the course of the whole film and is very smart.

Some of the generic conventions included in Crime/mystery films include:

  • Illegal activity 
  • Guns, Knives, deadly weapons
  • Drugs 
  • Police 
  • Gangs and gang leaders 
  • Death
  • Blood
  • Fight sequences


Popular Crime films would be;

  • Pulp Fiction
  • The Godfather trilogy 
  • The Dark Knight 
  • Kill Bill 
  • The Shawshank Redemption 

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