The Departed

Is the Genre Established? What is it?

Within the first 2 minutes of the Departed it is established that the film involves around crime as well as gangster conflicts as it is shown to be within a city which you assume  the film is being based in as well as there is violence where there has shown to be riots and lots of fights/ protesting  as well as money laundering which is usually involves gangsters.  

How is the Genre established? What convention are used? 

The way the genre established is that through out the clip, violence is shown throughout in different ways with police cars driving past with there lights flashing letting the audience no that there is something going on. with the  violence they show clips of riots that have taken place so that the audience understands there will be conflict within the film. there are also other aspects in the film that you find out as there are part that would relate to racism as well as the money that is shown to be past around which gangsters usually involve themselves with. 

What else does the audience find out in the first 2 minutes? 

Well it is already well established that the film is going to be based around crime violence which will involve some sort gangster involvement. Within the 2 minutes of the clip one of the antagonistic is show but only toward the end of the two minutes, but the way he is shown is that his face is covered by the dark so that you cant see him, they could of done this for a number of reason, maybe they though it was best to cover his face so that the suspense of finding out who he is it grown for the audience watching.

How does the audience find this out? 

Within the 2 minute Clip it is shown to be a large group of people fighting between one another, the way it is show is that the clip looks to be quit old footage that would of been filmed by someone withing the cowed of people that where fighting. as well as how the money laundering is to be show, is that a man is to be shown in a cafe handing over a large sum money to a dark figured man, which could be seen as a sort of money transfer between people.