The title of our opening sequence is 'rags 2 riches' we decided upon this title as a group it took a huge discussion to decide upon this name. The conclusion of this title was decided upon because it majorly relates to the action that goes on in our opening sequence as the main character rises from a nobody to become successful and rich through the occupation of being a traditional gangster. Hence why the title is "rags 2 riches". This title would be a lot like other titles of well known gangster films in the multimedia industry of today.
Setting and location of the film
We chose to set our film in the streets of London, this is due to it being a modern day gangster film. Although it does have a lot of the conventions of a traditional gangster film still in place.We have contrasted against the traditional gangster films with our London setting as most of them are set in places like New York city, even though they are both big cities the american and British cultures will be different therefore causing a difference between the types of the two gangsters in both destinations.As our location is in London we believe that it will be different from other gangster films that are already available meaning that it could be quite a hit with the current gangster film viewers.
Costumes and props used
When we researched the current gangster films already on the market before we noticed that it was a key aspect to have the main characters dressed well and in clothes that are suit-like. We thought that if we challenged this convention then maybe our media piece would look unprofessional and pretty cheasy. We also believe that this is a way in which u can differentiate from other genres and classify our opening sequence as part of the gangster genre.
Camerawork and editing
The camerawork and editing that we did in our film opening sequence is very similar if not almost identical to the camerawork and editing used in previous gangster films that we researched. We edited the lighting and color effects of the entire film to make sure it wasn't to bright as other current gangster films seemed to carry that sort of sinister dull look about them.
Font style of our title sequence
In our title sequence the font we chose to include resembles a solid structure and is gold this could be concluded that our writing is like solid blocks of gold. This is very good for the conventions of the genre as gangster genre is undoubtedly always including money,wealth and gold.
The way in which the story is introduced
We use a flashback in our opening sequence as the story as basically being retold, this goes with the conventions as this same technique is used in many other films but also used in the godfather which is one of the best gangster genre films ever screened according to many people.Keeping to this convention could be costly but i believe that we managed to include the flashback appropriately and effeiceintly.
The way in which our genre is introduced
As the gangster genre stereotypicaly consists of a wealthy character we introduce into the genre when the passing of a large amount of cash is exchanged between the main character and the cab driver. This exchange of cash could almost instantly tell us that the genre is gangster because of all the money gangster stereotypes that have already been preset by previous gangster films.
The way in which our character is introduced
When our character is first screened he is introduced as a silhouette so that his identity is kept a secret and mysterious. This technique goes along with the current conventions of the gangster genre as this secret identity idea appears in many previous films before.
Special effects included
From my own conclusion of prior research we found that gangster genre films didn't tend to include a lot of special effects. Therefore as a group we decided that we didn't want to go against this convention and didn't choose to include many special effects. in fact the only special effects that are really in the whole opening sequence would be the color correction to make the settings darker and also the effects that are used on the title these effects on the title go against the conventions of an original gangster film.
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