Genre conventions : crime

 

• Common Camera Angles in Crime 
• -Low angled shots show power and authority
• -High angled shots show lack of power and authority 
• -Close up and extreme close up show a characters feelings and emotions

• Common Mis-en-Scene in Crime Films?

• Low level lighting creates shadows in order to create fear and tension for the audience.
• -make up such as bruising and blood from fighting scenes.
• -weapons such as knives and guns, and stereotypically crowbars are used in crime films during the scene of the crime.
• -dark places such as alleys
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• Common Editing in Crime Films?

editing techniques and styles in crime genre films moves from slow to fast, changing the pace of the narrative and speeding up in short, spiking moments of intense action.

• Common sound in Crime Film?

Background sounds and/or music will most likely be playing throughout the entire movie, whether the sounds be diegetic or non-diegetic sounds.

• Example of Films in Crime?

Now you see me (2013)

Oceans eleven (2001) 

• What elements Crime that you like, and you would use? 

• What elements Crime do not appeal you, and you would stay away from?