History of Crime Genre

History of Crime Genre

Crime films have been around for a long time, they are always going to be around as they can be relevant at anytime period as crime is always going to be happening. A conventional crime film will follow the life of a criminal/gangster, or it may be highlighted on the victims life. Vladimir Propp's theory of characters can be applied very easily in a crime film. 

Like any film genre there are sub genres, Crime-Thriller, Film-Noir, Neo-Noir, Crime mystery, Crime Drama, Crime Comedy, Crime romance. The most common is crime mystery or crime drama. The most popular crime drama or crime mystery is 

Some crime films are not based on novels, but can be based on plays instead such as, Agatha Christie stage play called Witnesses for the Prosecution. This is a courtroom drama. 

Courtroom - one of the main characters is being charged and there will be a lawyer defending them, it builds up suspense as you do not know if the main character has committed the crime or not. These use a lot of flashbacks in order to show what happened leading up to the event, this is a good way for the director to ensure that the audience  is engaged in the film, they will want to watch to find out what really happened. 

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Dealers Atonement Final Coursework

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Editing Update (from Joe Panton Blog)

Editing update: 'Okay, we'll leave it now'

With the 'journey' starting back in November with the first ever script drafts (mine), (Jake's), we have gone through several stages of development, throwing ideas in and out and all over the place and with the merging with another group - Beth Overton and Phoebe Davies - we eventually came to an end product.

The editing process was long, exhaustive and sometimes tedious. The fiddly process of moving audio clips across to match video clips and having to work with transitional effects in very small spaces were just a couple of problems that we came across the solved through nothing but hours of methodical placement. From slowing down clips to match a slower flowing pace of the clip to then cutting and overlapping audio in order to speed up a piece of dialogue in a way that still sounds right. The cheeky yet somewhat creepy addition of the 'breaking the fourth wall' technique to raising and lowering the audio levels to a non-ear-ringingly-loud-volume.

And much more.

But on Monday 10th March, with one last drag of a clip to another ('AND DON'T FORGET THE SNAPPING TOOL!') our film was finally finished. While we waited for the film to load into a QuickTime format, we recalled earlier on in our course, when we had analysed other sixth form students' opening sequences. We decided that the tiringly long editing process was not only worth it, but that we had learnt a great deal from working with editing programs such as Final Cut. We may not be Hollywood editors but we had constructed a film in which the editing is about as seamless and unnoticeable (which is a pretty good sign) as it probably could be with the clips we had at our disposal to use. No doubt our film might be pulled apart by others, but to us we have done our best and learnt essential editing skills and techniques for our media course.

The opening sequence for Dealer's Atonement is finished, and will be available to watch on this blog very soon. Now, I will be starting my evaluation of our work.