Gangster Film Conventions

The main genre idea of the production is to create an authentic Gangster production about two different gangs selling drugs for money. The audience will gain a better understanding of about what a Gangster film. The audience can learn life lessons from the plot we have created about gangsters. One of the lessons that can be learnt is that business is business; it’s not personal because its very important to take emotions out of your decisions because emotion clouds your judgment and when you make a decision out of fear, you are acting from a position of weakness, not strength. The audience can gain an understanding of how some Gangsters life's actually are in real life.

The plot line of the production about two different gangs trading drugs
The production we are creating involves lots of murder as everyone dies in the end. Power and authority is convention in Gangster films and the film we are producing involves this as there is a leader in both gangs and their trusty allies. Another convention of the Gangster genre would be the use of wealth such as suits and expensive cars. Wealth is also used as a way of making a gangster lifestyle more appealing to the Spector, which makes them see more appealing as a hero rather then someone would does bad things for a personal gain. Our film will involve an expensive car and everyone will be wearing suits. The rise and fall of the gangster is a convention of the Gangster genre. This is whereby the spectator has seen the gangster throughout the film getting what he wants through crime, all these crimes lead to success. At the end of the film the gangster or mod of gangster are often punished for their crimes, such as
This scene will be shot at an old warehouse this is because some of the scenes in a Gangster film are usually shot at a rundown area where the boss can not been seen or anyone else when selling drugs. Gang '1' will get out of the car in a triangle formation with the leader in the front to show that he is the boss. They will walk into the warehouse and gang '2' will be in the warehouse with their leader in the middle at the front and one of his allies next to him. The third member will be in the corner smoking a cigar and when gang '1' enters, he will drop the cigar on the ground and walk over to the other side of their gang leader. When gang '1' stops about 4 metres away from gang '2', the leader of gang '2' says " do you have the drugs". The leader of gang '1' responds saying "show me the money and we have a deal". Then the leader of gang '2' says "show me the drugs". The gang leader of gang '1' shoots gang '2' leader and then there is a shoot out. Everyone in gang '2' gets killed and only one of the members of gang '1' survives. The lighting that will be used is low level lighting (mainly dark), as it creates a more grim feel to the production and is used to reflect the dark personalities of the Gangster. The use of dark lighting can also reflect the dark storyline to their film and the violence within it. The costumes that are going to be used are formal