Media crime justification

Media crime justification

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  Charlie Quirk Justification ofour chosen genre For our upcoming A2 Media project I will be working alongside Brandon Hanlon and we will be creating a trailer for our chosen genre. We have chosen to do a Crime trailer as we believe this will give us the best chance of achieving the best marks. The first reason for choosing Crime as the genre for our trailer is because we feel that Crime films are less common in comparison to Horror films or Action films. This is supported by the fact that there were only 9 Crime films during 2014 where as in 2014 there were 29 Action films. Therefore we wanted to try and create a new and original crime film which will stand out due to its originality. The second reason as to why we wanted to use Crime as the main genre for our trailer is because there a range of different sub-genres which we can also use. This helps us bring in several different conventions that may come from the variety of sub-genres there are for Crime films. In addition to this, it also allows us to be more general when it comes down to deciding what conventions we want to use in the trailer. If we were to use Crime as the one specific genre of our film without a sub-genre, we would not be able to bring in more conventions into the trailer to make it more interesting. Furthermore, another reason for choosing Crime as the genre of our upcoming trailer is because we felt that we could reveal certain things about the film through the trailer. For example we had the idea to show certain objects such as a knife which would be significant to film, this would therefore allow the audience to get an idea of what the full film plot would be about, the use of editing in the trailer as well would also play an impact on the audience as we came up with the idea that we could use particular sounds which would foreshadow a event that would happen in the film. For example we could insert a scream into the trailer which could indicate to the audience that someone in the film is in danger. Furthermore we could use a particular object which could also foreshadow a future event or a colour such as red to indicate that danger is close. Overall me and Brandon both agree that Crime was the best genre for our upcoming trailer. We felt that we could incorporate a range of conventions into the trailer which will make it seem more interesting and will want to make the audience watch the full film. By using our previous experience of creating the opening 2 minutes of an action film we realise that its important to consider each aspect of the film and its also important to have a general idea of how the trailer will play out by researching a range of different Crime films. From what I have researched I have discovered that Crime films tend to use a main character which had a difficult childhood, therefore by knowing this we are able to decipher what the backstories will be for some of the characters in the trailer and the full film.