Planning for our Genre

We contemplated all of the possibilities of genres that we could do for our trailer and as a group decided upon the crime genre. We made a chart of all the possibilities and limited them down to our most favourite.

The possible genres that we chose were, horror, thriller, romance, rom-com, drama, psychological thriller and crime and gangster. After a lot of consideration, we chose crime and gangster as our genre as we believed that it is thoroughly different to everything else, media related, that we have done. Furthermore there are many possibilities with the storyline, so we can think of multiple plots for the main narrative and then adapt for our trailer. As we have decided upon the crime genre, i looked up the typical conventions to ensure that we create a realistic piece:

Criminal and gangster characters

Underworld figures

Highlight either the rise or fall of a particular criminal

Gangster films are often catagorised as film noirs

There is often drug abuse portrayed in the film

Violent props, such as guns, knifes etc

Car chases/ chases in general between groups that have rivalry