Ifluences on My Opening

Influences On My Opening

I will use elements of these Tv programmes and films in my opening, such as the way the text appiers in Sherlock. The use of light in the Hitchcock film No.17 and the use of silece in Southclife.

Alfred Hitchcock Research

Analysis of British Gangster Films - Openings

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Get Carter

Layer Cake

From this I have learnt that British gangster movies use white writing with a black background, titles last at least 2 seconds long and they use music during the action which gradually builds. They also tent to put credits/titles on objects such as walls and I will be using this in my opening....

Disribution Companies

Conevntions Of Gangster Films

The History of Gangster Films

Gangster Film Research

The Top Five Gangster Films:

1. Goodfellas (1990) Martin Scorsese
2. The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
3.  The Godfather: Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
4. The Departed (2006) Martin Scorsese
5. City of God (2002) Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund

Sub-Genres:

• Crime
• Thriller
• Nior
• Mob
• Ditective

Classic/Stylised:

• Suits
• Set in the past
• Nior

Modern Day/Urban:

• The Sweeney
• Dialect
• Inner city violence