Research findings

some things I will add from my research on tv crime genres and some crime film opening sequences, for example, Luther and Goodfellas

from Goodfellas, we can see clearly the crime genre background straight away as we see henry hill whos family are working-class and don't make a lot of money who sees these wiseguys living the lavish lifestyle and is drawn to it and eventually becomes part of the group himself this tone has previously been set by the godfather.

the background of crime subgenres:

revenge tragedy: this about some family conflict or some disruptive event with the protagonist and the antagonist that gets someone killed and they come back for revenge this links to my opening sequence as my character's plot is based off revenge

the great detective: in early crime genres the story would follow the main protagonist around from the beginning to end this would be to try and portray to the audience how great the detective is and so the audience gets behind the character one example of this would be sherlock homes.

the golden era: this is when crime genres mainly involved your James bond types the foreign super secret agent who is silent but deadly.

hard-boiled: this was about the loose cannon detectives who would work all by themselves this was around before and after world war 2 these characters types were mostly American going after groups like the mob who no one could touch.

police procedure: this was the classic grime genre with the standard police solving crimes and arresting criminals things like interrogations, forensic scenes, and the legal battles were shown.  this type of subgenre became very popular from the 1950s and onwards due to the real-life feel and technology will only help advance this type of subgenre.