Pros:
- Easier to get the audience’s attention. You can start this genre with many different scenarios such as the crime it’s self or the preparation for the crime.
- This then can raise more enigma codes. What happens after the crime? Do they get caught? What did they do?
- You can create a more realistic storyline than other genres such as sci-fi, western and horror.
- The genre of crime is easier to identify by using a conventional mise-en-scene. For example, police sirens.
- Crime films don’t tend to have huge special effects. Therefore, it will make my film look more realistic and believable.
- The conventional surroundings of crime are normally a bleak grey sky to connote the genre of the film. This would work well because England during the winter time has this type of weather.
- Locations will be easier to access because crime opening could take place anywhere. Not in a specific location like a western.
Cons:
- Props. Normally a crime will feature some kind of weapon or gun. To replicate a weapon that looks genuinely real will be hard.
- Actors. Crime films conventionally use older actors to play parts such as the criminal, detective or a policeman/woman. I will have limited resources to find older participants with enough spare time.
- Crime films often entwine a second genre, for example crime thriller or crime action. This may be a problem when I come to film a realistic opening scene.
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