2. Conventions
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Guns
Families based around crime
Violence
Organized crime
Generally men acting tough
Generally the gangster genre of films normally has the motive of someone obtaining the ‘American
Dream’ the dream is that you will be as rich as possible with as much power and respect as possible.
There’s a lot of sub genres of the genre itself such as
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Classic (Mafia)
Contemporary Western (British)
Contemporary Eastern (Many countries)
The main sub-genre I intent to be working in will be ‘Contemporary Western’ British based gangster
films such as ‘Snatch’ or ‘The Business’ I feel I could excel the most here since I actually live in England
and I have watched more British gangster films than Classic or Contemporary Eastern.
3. Composition and Character Placement: The actors have been placed
there to show that Tony is surrounded by police officers and is in
some kind of trouble. Obviously because he’s Cuban and this is
set in the Cuban revolt.
Lighting: As you can see Tonys face
Tony is in casual clothes, unbuttoned shirt, showing it’s hot in
Is lit up nicely to make it the vocal point
Miami, but the officers are in formal gear showing they’re on the
Of the shot, but everywhere else is not
Job and this isn’t some gang Integrity
At lit up.
Close-up shot
Dolly
movement
4. Two shot, to get across these two people are
Having a conversation.
The light is on their faces
To show the expressions they
Show when talking.
Both in casual clothes, doesn’t make much sense since they rob the café.
5. The actors around him have been placed in a certain
way so the camera can move so he can find a gap
to show the main character.
They’re all wearing coats, to show it’s cold and they’re
In England probably London.
Mid-shot
Dolly shots,
To show a sort of
point of view
that the crowd
around him is
large.
6. It’s not exactly a shocker that the lighting
Is always on the main character of the scene,
there’s obvious exceptions such as ‘The Departed’
The acting of this scene is mysterious but played off well
Nothing is really informative just what you see on screen.
Mid-shot
7. The whole opening scene is a weird one I couldn’t
really pick much out.
With the opening scene it’s either opening credits or
An object of significance, you can’t actually talk about
Acting and/or actors.
Close-ups on
Object of significance
