Our use of form and conventions:
- We used the typical conventions of the gangster genre this included things such as suits, cigars, dark alleys and gun. This made it easy for the audience to recognise the film as an American Gangster film
- The film noir type look is something often associated with crime movies as such we found taking this and changing it to a Sin City type effect gave the film an appropriate look for the genre
- As with many films openings the production company logo appears first and when the titles begin to role we make sure the main actors come first.
Our development of form and conventions:
- We took a similar approach from other films that vaguely establish characters and kill off the character the audience most relates to. This happened in films such as The Cube and Scream and makes the opening have more of an impact as the audience then feels that no one is safe and anyone could die.
- We created an enigma by keeping people and motives hidden, since the story is told in the past tense you assume that you will find out the basis of what is happending later on.
The Challenging of form and conventions
- By keeping conversation to a minimum we went against the conventions of many other gangster films that have wordy openings. However it was necessary to create a greater sense of enigma and really catch the viewers attention
- Having a female lead in this genre goes against the conventions because normally they play more supporting roles to the men but in our film we have her at the forefront. Which can be symbolised by her red shoes
As you can see here our character of the gangster closely matches other interpritations of the Italian/American Mafia both ours and the the one represented here have small handguns and are well dressed, in suits etc.
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