(adam)
When considering the conventions of the gangster film genre we were to include in our film, mis en scene was our primary concern. By paying close attention to mis en scene we were able to include many of the typical conventions necessary to establish our film into its genre. We included typical prop conventions such as: guns, money and drugs to do this. One film we can credit a great amount of influence to is "Snatch", from which we got our idea of using the updated western style freeze frames. Our opening remained fairly conventional of the gangster genre because of our mis en scene. Another convention we used was the choice of music. To identify our audience and to give the intended impression of this being a British gangster movie we used music from Brit-pop band "Oasis", a popular music choice among our intended audience of young males.
Freeze Frame
(jake)The first screen grab shows one of our freeze frames (Mick) in comparison to a freeze frame from the film snatch, this film was a major influence in the creation of our film. Me and Adam both felt that the use of freeze frames would give our film opening a sense of style that many gangster films utilise to mould the personality of the characters.
When using these freeze frames, the worry was that the film opening would look very similar to the film opening of snatch. Although this was the case, once our film had been edited and completed, its appearance was very different, but had similar themes.
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