Crime films focus on the lives of criminals and often glorify criminal acts. They highlight the rise and fall of particular criminals or gangs, showing their secret world through dark nightclubs, piles of cash, and seedy living quarters. Common conventions of the crime genre include gangs, weapons, drugs, violence, hatred, and fast pacing. Some subgenres are cops and robbers, detective/mysteries, film noir, hood films, law and order, and mafia gangster films. The document's author chose the crime genre for their film trailer project because they and their partner enjoy hood films like Top Boy and wanted a genre they felt comfortable portraying in a short trailer.

1. Genre analysis
Crime

2. Chosen genre
Crime:
Crime films are films which focus on the lives of the criminals. Criminal acts
are almost always glorified in these movies. Crime stories in this genre often
highlight the life of a crime figure, or they glorify the rise and fall of a
particular criminal, gang, bank robber, murderer or lawbreakers in personal
power struggles or conflict with law and order figures, an underling or
competitive colleague, or a rival gang. Gangster/crime films are usually set in
large, crowded cities, to provide a view of the secret world of the criminal:
dark nightclubs or streets with lurid neon signs, fast cars, piles of cash, sleazy
bars, contraband, seedy living quarters or rooming houses. Exotic locales for
crimes often add an element of adventure and wealth.

3. Crime conventions
• Gangs
• Weapons
• Drugs
• Violence
• Hatred
• Fast Paced
• Villains
• Alcohol

4. Crime sub genres
• Cops & Robbers
• Detective/Mysteries
• Film Noir
• Hood films
• Law and Order
• Mafia Gangster
• Police

5. Why did I choose the crime genre?
Working in a group meant that my partner and I needed to agree
on what genre we wanted our film trailer to be based on. We
didn’t want to create a romantic movie trailer as we felt that this
would appear to be too challenging to portray the message of
love across in a 1-2 minute trailer. Our ideas were more suited
towards the crime genre as we are great fans of Top Boy. It is a
vast enough genre in which great movies have come from it for
example; Kidulthood, Attack The Block and Adulthood. We opted
more for the ‘hood’ subgenre as we were inspired by the movies
listed above.