The group I was in peer assessment with decided that they preferred my first scene choice.
This was 'Start as a flash back of when they was younger pretending to be fighting and their parents telling them off, and the back to reality as they're speeding off in their car with a person held hostage...'
My opening scene differs from most gangster movie openings as i have gone for the less stereotypical opening. Instead of using a head gangster person and him telling his past to the camera under dark lightning with a spot light identifying him, like we see in 'The Godfather', I am using a flash back to start with to show when the gangsters are children play fighting with their parents telling them off.
In terms of genre conventions I used the main ones from a Gangster movie which include using the theme of swearing and slang language with violence, showing the film from one persons point of view about how they became a gangster. My group agreed that I used a good twist in the plan as in gangster movies they do not show how one of the people have a loving family but i wanted to put this in as a twist so it shows how he has to be a carer and look after his children. It acts as if he leaves his good life behind when he's out with his Mafia.
They agreed that in terms of genre conventions I could have understood the genre more, and used this to my advantage when writing the plan. I could have enhanced my knowledge of the genre and added more in-depth conventions and identified different ways of challenging the conventions.
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