Genre Convention Research: Assessment Feedback

In groups of four we were given the task of peer assessing one an others homework. The homework task was to come up with three ideas for opening sequences of a gangster movie and to come up with the five common characteristics that relate to gangster genre and one additional characteristics that contradict the common gangster genre. 

The five common characteristics were:

Money

Power 

Violence 

Crime 

Trust

A characteristic that would contradict the traditional gangster genre would be a female mafia leader. 

After assessing the five common characteristics of the gangster genre I developed three initial ideas for an opening sequence. The peer assessment that i received found that my first opening sequence was the most appropriate. 

This opening sequence was:

Opening sequence was to be set in a dark office with low levels of lighting and in black and white. The first camera shot will be of a close up of a cigarette in a glass astray. As the dialogue begins the camera will begin a reverse creep until the character pick up the cigarette. The camera will follow the hand of the character back to he face of the character. As the smoke from the cigarette is dispersed the face of the character is finally revealed.