Sin city conventions:
Mise-en-scene: The entirety of sin city is in black and white, this is on behalf of both mise-en-scene and editing. The colours portray a dark and mysterious atmosphere where as the effect of black and white is edited into the film, showing how both aspects comes across. In the opening of the clip the police approach the main character “Marv” with guns, guns are common properties in thriller movies. The policemen and the police cars are obvious conventions of a crime genre; sin city falls under a crime thriller, this then depicts conventions of both the thriller and sub-genre crime. The clear contrast of red showing blood on Marv’s face and on the police siren can be seen as a connation of danger, which is very appropriate as the police intend on killing the criminal Marv. The half lit environments and shadows also demonstrate tension building as well as the setting showing stairs. The choice of a set in a city or town and use of windows shows conventions through iconography, a clear convention is also shown through the set of the prison; this depicts crime and thriller conventions.
Camera work and editing: The camera angles are very quick, there are quick cuts and a variety of angle changes, and this makes the storyline very fast paced and is also a convention of thriller movies. The clip begins with a close up shot of the main character in the middle of the frame this shows his importance and again is a convention of thriller films. The majority of editing in sin city is the effect of black and white filming, this is a convention of a thriller on behalf of the colours, and dull colours represent a gothic atmosphere which is common in a thriller. Sound bridges of non-diegetic sound build atmosphere in this clip, this is superimposed into the clip showing the aspect of editing as well as a convention of thriller movies.
Sound: there are frequent points in the clip where ambient music is added to create tension or other emotion, developing the mood of the clip, this sound is non-diegetic, which as stated is a certainty in thriller films. The main character Marv also narrates over the top of the clip, this is classified as non-diegetic sound as it replaces diegetic sound n the clip, narration is very common in both thriller and crime films.
