Analysis Of The Gangster Genre

The gangster genre is well known for action scenes, scenes of violence , corruption, drug use and gambling and sometimes scenes of a sexual nature. Well known gangster films include films like Oceans 11, James Bond, The Godfather, Goodfella's and Reservoir dogs. The opening scene of the majority of these films tend to be dimly lit, this is used to create a sense of mystery and suspense. All the well known gangster films contain scenes of violence and add sound effects like gunshots and explosions in the post production stage of filming this gives a sense of tension,suspense and atmosphere to the film. Many ganagster films use cross cutting to cut from one event to another to further increase the suspense of the film as your waiting to see whats going to happen next keeping leaving the audience on the edge of their seats. Gangster films usually use props like cars usually used in car chase scenes, pistols, machine guns, explosives almost anything that can be used as a weapon such as crowbar,axe etc.  I also found that with the title sequences on many of the films that all the heading's were in bold this is so their names stand out so we can clearly identify who's who and relate to the character character with greater ease. I also found with many of the more well known gangster films like reservoir dogs , oceans 11 and the godfather that main characters are dressed quite smartly showing that their more important and of a higher class.

Our New Production Company

We decided it would be better to change the production company to swift get away productions instead of pizza planet productions. This was because old name of the production company we felt didn't fit into the gangster genre whereas we feel that this new name is much more slick and professional and is better suited to this type genre.We made the title in bold and used the white and black so it stands out on against the background. After looking at how other gangster films have presented their logo I found that our logo had quite afew similarities in comparison as many of the logos are presented in bold with little use of colour a good example of this is reserviour dogs.  As you can see from the two logos below their are afew similarities in the logo for reserviour dogs and our logo. First the bold headings this is common in the gangster genre and used in films such as The Godfather and Reservoir Dogs this is so the name stands out on the page and catches the viewers attention. We placed the name of the production company in the top left hand corner of the page in a sans-serif the reason its in a sans-serif font is it shows it the film is more contemporary and the fact that there is much within the frame makes the name of the production company stand out against the page. The use of white and black on the page really compliments itself really well as you can see below other films like Reservoir Dogs have used a similar effect as the combination of black and white really makes the title stand out within the frame.

Behind the scenes

What kind of media institution might distribute our film and why? (Evaluation Question 3)

The kind of media institution that might distribute our film are organisations companies like Warner Bros, Paramount Films, Miramax Films, 20th Century Fox  and Universal Pictures who have produced and distributed well known gangster films in the past. Most famous of which are films like Reservoir Dogs distributed by Miramax Films, Oceans 11 distributed by Warner Bros and The Godfather distributed by Paramount pictures.


20th Century Fox

Warner Bros







Paramount Pictures








A film such as ours might get funding from organisations such as the BFI (British Film Industry) who's main purpose is to encourage people to start making films in the UK promote foreign films and fund independent films in the UK.

A production company is a company responsible for the physical production of new media they are required to fund all their own movies and decide which films would be best to produce and mostly likely to make a large profit a good example of this is The Kings Speech.

Here is our video commentary again answering the questions above along with other questions related to our film.

Props & Effects

Props

Guns
hand guns , assault riffle ,sub machine guns, Hunting riffle scooped

• Cards & Chips 
• Rope
• Crash mats 
• Pizza boxes 
• Table & chairs 
• Van 
• Mobile phone 

Digital Storyboard

Last Man Standing

       Establishing Shot

Parallel shot of meeting




























Freeze Frame Introducing the chararcter

Low Angle Shot Of Main Character Leaving The Room

Two Shot

Mid Shot

Tracking Shot

Two shot

Script